[redlewel]

My jaw dropped when I read this guy wrote ffmpeg AND QEMU!!? Thats insane levels of talent and capability. I remember looking through the source for QEMU and it appeared monstrous in its scale. Dude is a legend, no wonder Carmack is complimenting him.

[Georgelemental]

To be clear, while he is the original author of both those programs, both are now developed by other people and have been for many years.

[andrehacker]

Isn't that how it is supposed to work ? Stroke of genius (over and over again) to get something working given constraints of the day followed by hundreds of engineers who will improve on the foundations, basically like Wozniak ?

[Georgelemental]

Yes, also to be clear, I am not diminishing Bellard's achievement

[bombcar]

Honestly, the ability to pass off a project to long-term maintainers that don't immediately get overwhelmed, collapse, or explode is perhaps his greatest skill.