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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Terry Davis - Temple OS.
Ken Thompson.
He built grep in a cave overnight with a box of scraps.
John Carmack comes to mind
John Carmack is not human. He is a cyborg from the future.
The guy who created curl.
Daniel Stenberg
https://mastodon.social/@bagder
I mean ernest famously did not seem to let people in with kbin. Its the whole reason mbin had to be forked. He was nice though so not sure about chad per se. Hope he is doing well.
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.
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.
Terry A. Davis’s story inspired me to try coding professionally.
Unfortunately coding professionally convinced me I’d have more fun in IT.
ankane for Ruby/rails. person is just constantly working on useful stuff
How has nobody said Fabrice Bellard?
QEMU, FFMPEG, TCC, TinyGL, QuickJS, and TSAC.
This is an easy one. Chris Sawyer. Created multiple Tycoon games from scratch, in Assembly.
Somebody tell me if my vibe is correct: Linus Torvalds
Everyone remembers him for the kernel, many forget he also wrote git.
But the rants are his real super power :)
Jeff Minter. If you know, you know.
Rimu!
I mean, if you’re not looking at just coding, Tyler bringing us Schedule 1 was pretty bad ass in many ways.
