John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard
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John Carmack calls Fabrice Bellard almost certainly a better overall programmer than himself.
A Twitter post by John Carmack expresses admiration for Fabrice Bellard, calling him 'almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.' The post has 627.7K views. An embedded tweet by Spencer Baggins describes Bellard as a French engineer who has written code used by YouTube, Netflix, and TikTok, including ffmpeg and QEMU.
What commenters are saying
Top commenters admire Bellard's privacy and focus, comparing him to Mozart. Some argue Carmack is a better software engineer due to code quality, while others praise Bellard's fast, effective style. A camp notes Bellard's code lacks abstraction but gets the job done, contrasting with Carmack's polished work. Another user calls mythologizing of both figures diminishing.