Other than yourself. obviously.
I’m curious about the cliché or obscure superlatives with no constraints other than the scope of impact; could be positive or negative in some contexts.
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Somebody tell me if my vibe is correct: Linus Torvalds
Everyone remembers him for the kernel, many forget he also wrote git.
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I don’t know many, so I’ll throw in Concerned Ape.
Love stardew, sunk over 2k hours into it and counting, and CA is based for a lot of reasons (not just his solo coding), but he’s not The Guy™ this question is looking for.
This is an easy one. Chris Sawyer. Created multiple Tycoon games from scratch, in Assembly.
The guy who created curl.
TempleOS is really impressive for an OS made by one guy! Terrence Davis had some mental health issues, but he’s legendary as a programmer.
John Cristy’s creation of ImageMagick probably qualifies
John Carmack comes to mind
Ken Thompson.
He built grep in a cave overnight with a box of scraps.
Sid Meier only one who’s name is before game title.
Has he ever done a solo project though? Even the first game titled with his name, Pirates!, wasn’t solo. It was his project though.
And I can think of other games with people’s names before the game title, but they were the author of the source material and not involved with the game development itself: Tom Clancy and Clive Barker.
You need to go deeper, how they founded MicroProse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellcat_Ace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_of_the_Jungle
ankane for Ruby/rails. person is just constantly working on useful stuff
I mean, if you’re not looking at just coding, Tyler bringing us Schedule 1 was pretty bad ass in many ways.
Terry Davis - Temple OS.
How has nobody said Fabrice Bellard?
QEMU, FFMPEG, TCC, TinyGL, QuickJS, and TSAC.
Richard Harris has had many awesome projects. He generally gets community support quickly. I started using Svelte way back on Svelte 1, and it was amazing. Still using it, and I love how Richard and the others have improved it.
