alt Hacker NewsFabrice is an absolute legend. Most people would be content with just making QEMU, but this guy makes TinyC and FFmpeg and QuickJS and MicroQuickJS and a bunch of other huge projects.
I am envious that I will never anywhere near his level of productivity.
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umvi • today at 2:34 AM
Not just programming either; he invented a mathematical technique for calculating the nth hex digit of pi
keepamovin • today at 4:30 AM
I know it's not true, but it would be funny if Bellard had access to AI for 15 years (time-traveler, independent invention, classified researcher) and that was the cause of his superhuman producitvity.
AI will let 10,000 Bellards bloom - or more.
Not to detract from his status as a legend, but I think the kind of person that singlehandedly makes one of these projects is exactly the kind of person that would make the others.
I forgot about FFmpeg (thanks for the reminder), but my first thought was "yup that makes perfect sense".