| ▲ | mschuster91 5 hours ago | |
> Perhaps some of you have other examples. The entirety of the works of Fabrice Bellard. QEMU and FFmpeg are the most well-known ones, but there's also a full blown x86 emulator fully and exclusively written in native JavaScript, a greenfield image compression format, a JS engine and probably a dozen other things I only randomly stumble upon and think "oh, wtf, another Fabrice Bellard thing?". | ||
| ▲ | kstrauser 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
On several occasions, I’ve seen some outlandish claim or another on a new piece of software I’ve never heard of, started to roll my eyes, saw that Bellard had written it, and turned back to see what genius thing he’d come up with. “New Halting Problem solver,” ok, sure buddy, “by Fabrice Bellard”, ok, so tell me how this works… | ||
| ▲ | fullstop 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I can't even imagine being able to think like he can. | ||