Does the perfect codebase exist? Or is it just a myth?

PS. I'm just a new grad with ~3 years of experience, and in my 4th company now.

Define perfect

It exists depending on the context. But I think it must be hard to achieve since you have to learn new stuff while trying to create a perfect codebase.

If it does exist, it is only possible for a short period of time. Today's perfect code base is tomorrow's legacy code base.

It exists to every dev, but no 2 devs will ever agree it's perfect.

@solis by perfect I mean, with reasonable documentation, proper code conventions, at least static code analysis done and comments.

@C0D4 😂😂😂 true words my dear sir

Perfect is like infinity. You can try to approximate it. But actually reacting it...

There are sayings like "A perfect fit" that give the illusion of perfection. If a candidate is called a perfect fit it might work out brilliantly but is every single aspect of that person ideal? Don't think so.

@beefdead by your definition yes. Wrote one myself for financial integration. No one else touches it that helps 😅

Would a commented, documented and tested sample hello world program that only uses standard libraries count as a perfect codebase if the coding conventions are also documented and the whole thing is consistent?

Hmm... Didn't Id Software release the source code for Quake 3?
That one might qualify 😀