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Well, wasn't Fabrice Bellard the guy who built a virtual machine with JS so that you could run Linux within the browser? https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cp

by arendtio 10mo ago

Well, wasn't Fabrice Bellard the guy who built a virtual machine with JS so that you could run Linux within the browser? https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cpu=riscv64&url=fedora33-riscv.cfg&mem=256 https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cpu=riscv64&url=fedora33...

kzrdude 10mo ago
And thanks to that we can run Linux in a PDF as well..
tombert 10mo 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.
- umvi 10mo ago
  Not just programming either; he invented a mathematical technique for calculating the nth hex digit of pi
- avaer 10mo 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".
  - tombert 10mo ago
    Sure, they're not unrelated or anything, but at the same time, they're all really important, huge projects.
- keepamovin 10mo 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.
anthk 10mo 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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Well, wasn't Fabrice Bellard the guy who built a virtual machine with JS so that you could run Linux within the browser? https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cp

by arendtio 10mo ago

kzrdude 10mo ago
And thanks to that we can run Linux in a PDF as well..
tombert 10mo 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.
- umvi 10mo ago
  Not just programming either; he invented a mathematical technique for calculating the nth hex digit of pi
- avaer 10mo 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".
  - tombert 10mo ago
    Sure, they're not unrelated or anything, but at the same time, they're all really important, huge projects.
- keepamovin 10mo 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.
anthk 10mo 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.