alt Hacker NewsI admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
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Fabrice is kind of like a space explorer. He goes where few people went before.
I think I first noticed this either with regard to JSLinux, or possibly some software he wrote before that; don't fully remember which year. It's like some people go deliberately to more unique problems with regards to software that actually works in achieving that outcome, whatever the outcome may be.
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A link to a tweet with two empty sentences, in turn replying to a LLM spam account, somehow shoots to #3 on the HN frontpage. This website is truly dead.
Fabrice Bellard is the actual greatest programmer that has ever lived.
Carmack's "almost certainly" doesn't look good here.
#howtomakethisaboutme "Almost certainly better than I am", eff off Carmack.
"He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am."
There is no almost John.
One of you has kept shipping for 30 years, the other one has spent most of the last couple of years in courts for stealing from former employers or on social media promoting being toxic and "anti woke" (whatever that is).
For me Michael Abrash (Quake, xbox) is a much better developer and person.
I am sorry John...who hinted that you were better programmer than Fabrice? And how is the AGI going? Any release date?
I’m asking genuinely: What’s the point of linking to Carmack’s tweet? The intellectual curiosity (what HN is ostensibly about) is all in the quoted tweet (despite it being written like an LLM trained on LinkedIn posts). Carmack isn’t really adding anything of importance or interest. Linking to him feels a bit cult of personality, as if Bellard is deserving of attention because Carmack gave some vague praise with qualifiers. Why not link directly to the quoted tweet, or even the Wikipedia page?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
Surely we are all capable of understanding Bellard’s contributions and judge them on their own merits without needing some famous programmer to point directly at it and saying “this good”.