Who is the most super Chad of solo code projects and why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Other than yourself. obviously.

I'm curious about the cliché or obscure superlatives with no constraints other than the scope of impact; could be positive or negative in some contexts.

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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

I don't know many, so I'll throw in Concerned Ape.

[-] Artisian@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Somebody tell me if my vibe is correct: Linus Torvalds

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Everyone remembers him for the kernel, many forget he also wrote git.

[-] snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

The guy who created curl.

[-] groet@feddit.org 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Daniel Stenberg
https://mastodon.social/@bagder

[-] Godort@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

John Cristy's creation of ImageMagick probably qualifies

[-] akai_android@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

ankane for Ruby/rails. person is just constantly working on useful stuff

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I mean, if you're not looking at just coding, Tyler bringing us Schedule 1 was pretty bad ass in many ways.

[-] Epp2@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

This is an easy one. Chris Sawyer. Created multiple Tycoon games from scratch, in Assembly.

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