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Ask HN: Who is the best programmer in the world right now?
I know that a question like that does not make too much sense, but i still think it would make for some interesting discussions.
Inspired by the same question on Quora:
http://www.quora.com/Computer-Programming/Who-is-the-best-programmer-in-the-world-right-now
Who do you think is the best programmer in the world right now and why ?
- n0body 12y agome, because i said so
- gjvc 12y agoI'm going to rise to the bait and nominate Jon Skeet http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet, because his answers have helped so many others by the leaderboard at http://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=all http://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=all
- factorialboy 12y agoIf he was the best, he would be too busy to participate on SO ... =p
- mc_hammer 12y agoill rise to the bait also and nominate john carmack. i think its probably him or an unknown to me developer from the quake/unreal engines.. just because they optimized the best engines and so many millions of $ were made from their minutes spent coding. also could be gaben or a linux/win kernel dev... maybe?
- raphinou 12y agoI find Fabrice Bellard's work remarkable and impressive
- atmosx 12y agoThat's easy, the best programmer in the world, right now and forever, is Mel[1]. [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.jokes/k2JVKQzJSpY https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.jokes/k2JVKQzJSp...
- alexknvl 12y agoHow do you measure "bestness" exactly? Is it measured in the number of daily GitHub/BitBucket/whatever commits or in the number of stackoverflow answers? Or is it measured in the overall impact on the world (which is hard to quantify by itself, btw)? Define "the best", and it won't take much time to figure out who it is. P.S. Personally, my choice would be Paul Graham (measured by the number of his essays I read and liked).
- J_Darnley 12y agoThe people working on LibreSSL?
- pierre 12y agoI don't know if there is any 'best programmer in the world' and if such a concept make sense. But some programmers seems to be very productive, in top of my head: Fabrice Bellard (http://bellard.org/ http://bellard.org/) : He create a lot of high impact project including FFMPEG John Carmack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack): Video game legend that create DOOM Josh Parnell (http://joshparnell.com/ http://joshparnell.com/) : Young programmer developing outstanding games alone.
- zikzikzik 12y agoThe nice guy ;) behind linux and git.
- nhayden 12y agoI think the people behind TrueCrypt deserve some recognition - they solved an extremely difficult problem much better than it had ever been solved before. It's unfortunate they never got Windows 8 compatibility before shutting down.
- justplay 12y agoruby on rails fan guy here and i adore what ddh has created.
- arzugula 12y agoAaron Patterson continues to make Rails awesome (check his RailsConf 2014 keynote). To me (and a lot of folks I know) he is the most inspiring programmer today. His positive attitude, dedication to making software better, and continuous stream of hilarious tweets are unparalleled.
- justplay 12y agoFully agree. Contributors like Aaron patterson and jose valim are the accelerator which keeps the Rails project healthy today. I rather say that I adore DDH just because he has entrepreneur, hacker and developer which i want to became in near future. Furthermore, i very much inspired with Aaron Patterson peepcode screenshot.
- bluerail 12y agoLinus torvalds...? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
- neduma 12y agoI guess this is very subjective. Github should do some analysis based on code commits and should post top ranking programmers.
- Im_Talking 12y agoThis is like asking who makes the world's best coffee. I think there are physicists working on weather, LHC, astrophysics problems which probably blow-away any of the commercial guys.
- idoescompooters 12y agoSteve Wozniak!