Somebody tell me if my vibe is correct: Linus Torvalds
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This is an easy one. Chris Sawyer. Created multiple Tycoon games from scratch, in Assembly.
TempleOS is really impressive for an OS made by one guy! Terrence Davis had some mental health issues, but he's legendary as a programmer.
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The guy who created curl.
If it isn't Linus Torvalds with Linux then it has to be Steve Wozniak and Apple.
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John Cristy's creation of ImageMagick probably qualifies
John Carmack comes to mind
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I don't know many, so I'll throw in Concerned Ape.
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Tarn Adams and Concerned Ape.
Why? Dwarf Fortress and Stardew Valley (and maybe Haunted Chocolatier if he ever works on it instead of adding another big update to Stardew). 'Nuff said.
Ken Thompson.
He built grep in a cave overnight with a box of scraps.
I mean, if you're not looking at just coding, Tyler bringing us Schedule 1 was pretty bad ass in many ways.
Sid Meier only one who's name is before game title.
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Terry Davis - Temple OS.
Jeff Minter. If you know, you know.
Victor Chelaru of FlatRedBall and GUM fame. He codes in his car while waiting for his kids to get out of school, he codes on the beach while on vacation, and he literally codes in the waiting room of doctors visits. No joke, he almost never stops coding.
Well Chris Sawyer of course!
ankane for Ruby/rails. person is just constantly working on useful stuff
Richard Harris has had many awesome projects. He generally gets community support quickly. I started using Svelte way back on Svelte 1, and it was amazing. Still using it, and I love how Richard and the others have improved it.
How has nobody said Fabrice Bellard?
QEMU, FFMPEG, TCC, TinyGL, QuickJS, and TSAC.
I mean ernest famously did not seem to let people in with kbin. Its the whole reason mbin had to be forked. He was nice though so not sure about chad per se. Hope he is doing well.
Rimu!
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