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How could I've forgotten the legendary torvalds!

Sqlite team also seems to be one of the 100x people imo. Maybe I just cherish sqlite's simplicity and its hyperfocus and it delievers exactly what it says (somewhat), a lot!

Definitely feel like we need a forum where we can all compile a list of 100x developers and vote who is the best 100x developer

I feel like although Mitchell is up in the top three. To me bellard/torvalds tops it all of if you consider it from a pure software perspective and not that Mitchell went back from a billion $ empire to hacking again

Bellard has created qemu and ffmpeg and tcc/jslinux/ I think even xterm js kind of came somehow due to bellard so a lot of terminal emulators and their recent work is just as fascinating.

Torvalds with linux and git are two back to back things which we know and love and use today.

Bellard is just a little less known because unlike linus torvalds who named the os as linux ie. after himself. Ffmpeg and qemu don't really tell them that they are created by the same guy.



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