Awesome-Lightweights

This is a list of Open Source implementations of various protocols and technologies. Those implementations should strive to be lightweight and easily readable.

Inspired by this comment on HN.

BitTorrent

• LightDHT a lightweight python implementation of the BitTorrent DHT. Python

Blockchain

• Naivechain a blockchain in 200 lines of code. Apache Javascript
• Tinychain a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin. MIT Python

Neural network

• Mind a neural network library built in JavaScript. MIT Javascript

NTP

• NTPserver a Python based ntp server. MIT Python

Text editor

• Kilo a (console) text editor in less than 1000 lines of code with syntax highlight and search. BSD2 C