Notable examples of coding brilliance that came from the mind (and hands) of one programmer
Fabrice Bellard’s JSLinux
When you’re widely acknowledged to be one of thegreatest programmers in the world, you do something like write a browser-based PC emulator in JavaScript “for fun.” That’s the reason that Fabrice Bellard, known for things likes his QEMU hardware emulator, gave for doing just that when he wrote JSLinux. It emulates a 32 bit x86 compatible CPU running Linux with 32MB of RAM and includes a C compiler (Bellard’s own TinyCC) and emacs (Bellard’s QEmacs). And when you’re as smart and as good of a programmer as Bellard, you write it all in about 7,000 lines of code.
“I can't believe anyone would attempt this in Javascript, it's insanity.” Raffi256
“This is some truly amazing work” themoop
“Very impressive.” Alexandre C.
“Looking at Fabrice Bellard's accomplishments is a very humbling experience for any programmer.” Julianjon
Source:
http://www.itworld.com/article/2833731/keyboard-for-one-8-of-the-most-impressive-solo-programming-efforts.html
