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My jaw dropped when I read this guy wrote ffmpeg AND QEMU!!? Thats insane levels of talent and capability. I remember looking through the source for QEMU and
by redlewel 4mo ago
My jaw dropped when I read this guy wrote ffmpeg AND QEMU!!? Thats insane levels of talent and capability.
I remember looking through the source for QEMU and it appeared monstrous in its scale. Dude is a legend, no wonder Carmack is complimenting him.
- Georgelemental 4mo agoTo be clear, while he is the original author of both those programs, both are now developed by other people and have been for many years.
- andrehacker 4mo agoIsn't that how it is supposed to work ? Stroke of genius (over and over again) to get something working given constraints of the day followed by hundreds of engineers who will improve on the foundations, basically like Wozniak ?
- Georgelemental 4mo agoYes, also to be clear, I am not diminishing Bellard's achievement
- bombcar 4mo agoHonestly, the ability to pass off a project to long-term maintainers that don't immediately get overwhelmed, collapse, or explode is perhaps his greatest skill.