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Fun fact of the day: ffmpeg is written by Fabrice Bellard, who among other impressive things, wrote the JS PC emulator capable of running windows 2000 in a brow
by lxe 4y ago
Fun fact of the day: ffmpeg is written by Fabrice Bellard, who among other impressive things, wrote the JS PC emulator capable of running windows 2000 in a browser over 10 years ago that got me fascinated with emulators in general.
https://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html https://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
- galleywest200 4y agoHe also wrote QEMU, which is probably far more impressive.
- digianarchist 4y agohttps://smartbear.com/blog/fabrice-bellard-portrait-of-a-super-productive-pro/ https://smartbear.com/blog/fabrice-bellard-portrait-of-a-sup...
- MuffinFlavored 4y agoThis is missing QuickJS :) https://bellard.org/ https://bellard.org/
- mobilio 4y agoAlso LZEXE back in time...
- xwolfi 4y agoSorry, windows 98 running in JS is way way WAY more impressive. It's just insane.
- mhh__ 4y agoThe most impressive thing is the LTE modem
- Jasper_ 4y agoFabrice has not been involved in ffmpeg for well over 15 years now.
- pavlov 4y ago“Did you know that Dennis Ritchie wrote macOS? Just look at stdio.h, it’s still there.”
- jraph 4y agoWe probably should have a Fabrice Bellard accomplishments auto-comment on HN that starts by "Did you know…?" on those submissions.
- MuffinFlavored 4y agoIf we studied Fabrice from the perspective of "how can all be more like him/as productive as him/as innovative/as smart", do you think the findings would basically come back "he's just genetically gifted"? He's like the Lebron James of the tech world from what I can deduct.
- brigade 4y agoHe’s good at creating useful MVPs that are architected well enough to attract other people to finish the remaining 99% of the work as he moves on to the next project.
- astrange 4y agoffmpeg is largely written by Michael Niedermayer if it's anyone.
- The_Colonel 4y agoHe's been gone from ffmpeg for many years.
- Macha 4y agoHe still appears to be the fourth highest contributor for 2022 according to the github mirror?
- sirsinsalot 4y agoFabrice is superhuman for sure, but in 20 years the urban legend will go like ... Fabrice Bellard once read all of TAOCP in 20 minutes before being absorbed into his own AI and is now ascended in the ethereal ethernet silently fixing bugs in your code. Blessed be the bits.
- deafpolygon 4y agoChuck Norris once opened Windows and created the Macintosh.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoThat's not true. When I opened Windows the telemetry disappeared.
- gpvos 4y agoWhen Chuck Norris opens Windows, he only receives telemetry from Microsoft.
- dotancohen 4y agoChuck Norris once opened Windows and no bugs came in.
- nix23 4y agoXerox...it was xerox for both.
- imwillofficial 4y agoBlessed be His bits. Amen.
- surteen 4y agoUnder His vi
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- awill 4y agoThis is ridiculous. Not only is Bellard no longer involved, but to say 'written' implies he did this by himself. You wouldn't say Linux Torvalds wrote Linux. It's literally written by thousands of people. I work with people like this, and I hate it when people say "I wrote X feature." No, no you didn't. It was written by a whole team.
- lxe 4y agoI don't see anything wrong with this. It's like saying "Apple is built by Steve Jobs" even though obviously a lot more people are involved, and even if Jobs is no longer even around.
- awill 4y agoNo. That's not a good comparison. No one would say that about a company. A product, yes, but not a company. Steve Jobs founded, and led Apple.
- hashim 4y agoRelevant - a question I asked on this topic not long ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74828879/how-much-of-modern-ffmpeg-is-written-by-fabrice-bellard https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74828879/how-much-of-mod....