alt Hacker NewsHow do you know this? What do you mean? They are in the top X% of software engineers and computer scientists in terms of ... (some kind of productivity)?
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BeetleB • 11/07/2024
Perhaps I should have said "impactful" instead of "productive", but in my experience the two tend to be correlated.
John Wiegley has authored a number of highly used open source tools and libraries. So has Adam Porter (although perhaps not as much as John).
I wasn't comparing them globally with all SW engineers. My point was that they likely have accomplished more than most, if not all, the commenters in this submission. I, personally, would be cautious in criticizing their workflow unless I can demonstrate something better. Otherwise it's just armchair criticism.
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I'm not familiar with Porter, but Wiegley is a heavy contributor to a number of open source projects, is the author of the Ledger plain text accounting system, has been emacs maintainer since 2015, operates his own software consultancy, and is very active in several open source discussion lists. The guy is a dynamo.