tombert 13 hours ago

Fabrice 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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  • avaer 9 hours ago

    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".

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    • tombert 8 hours ago

      Sure, they're not unrelated or anything, but at the same time, they're all really important, huge projects.

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  • umvi 11 hours ago

    Not just programming either; he invented a mathematical technique for calculating the nth hex digit of pi

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  • keepamovin 9 hours ago

    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.

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kzrdude 14 hours ago

And thanks to that we can run Linux in a PDF as well..

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anthk 5 hours ago

And FFMPEG, the standard codec suite for Unix today. And Qemu, the core of KVM. Plus TCC, a great small compiler compared to C/Clang altough cparser has better C99 coverage. Oh, and some DVB transmitter reusing the MHZ radiation from a computer screen by tweaking the Vidtune values from X. It's similar to what Tempest for Eliza does.

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