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Well, eye opening was the C++ source code I was able to work with at a previous company, they were an automotive HMI developer company. They had really strict and well planned code structure that just hit a chord with me.

Can't provide source though on that one, as it's a propietary engine. Recently I've enjoyed reading the source code to Sokol, lot's of really good decisions there and I love the minimal C -style structure:

https://github.com/floooh/sokol

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Nix source code is also a pleasure to read through. I was surprised that c++ could be so beautiful and well written.

C++ gives you an enormous amount of rope to hang yourself with, but it’s also an highly expressive language.

Nix doesn't use most of C++ features though. It's just the way project was organized and code was formatted that it looked beautiful and easy to skim through.

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