Ask HN: Who is the best programmer in the world right now?
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That's easy, the best programmer in the world, right now and forever, is Mel[1].
[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.jokes/k2JVKQzJSp...
[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.jokes/k2JVKQzJSp...
I don't know if there is any 'best programmer in the world' and if such a concept make sense.
But some programmers seems to be very productive, in top of my head:
Fabrice Bellard (http://bellard.org/) : He create a lot of high impact project including FFMPEG
John Carmack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack): Video game legend that create DOOM
Josh Parnell (http://joshparnell.com/) : Young programmer developing outstanding games alone.
But some programmers seems to be very productive, in top of my head:
Fabrice Bellard (http://bellard.org/) : He create a lot of high impact project including FFMPEG
John Carmack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack): Video game legend that create DOOM
Josh Parnell (http://joshparnell.com/) : Young programmer developing outstanding games alone.
I'm going to rise to the bait and nominate Jon Skeet http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet, because his answers have helped so many others by the leaderboard at http://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=all
If he was the best, he would be too busy to participate on SO ... =p
I find Fabrice Bellard's work remarkable and impressive
I think the people behind TrueCrypt deserve some recognition - they solved an extremely difficult problem much better than it had ever been solved before. It's unfortunate they never got Windows 8 compatibility before shutting down.
This is like asking who makes the world's best coffee.
I think there are physicists working on weather, LHC, astrophysics problems which probably blow-away any of the commercial guys.
I think there are physicists working on weather, LHC, astrophysics problems which probably blow-away any of the commercial guys.
Linus torvalds...?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
I guess this is very subjective. Github should do some analysis based on code commits and should post top ranking programmers.
ill rise to the bait also and nominate john carmack. i think its probably him or an unknown to me developer from the quake/unreal engines.. just because they optimized the best engines and so many millions of $ were made from their minutes spent coding. also could be gaben or a linux/win kernel dev... maybe?
How do you measure "bestness" exactly? Is it measured in the number of daily GitHub/BitBucket/whatever commits or in the number of stackoverflow answers? Or is it measured in the overall impact on the world (which is hard to quantify by itself, btw)?
Define "the best", and it won't take much time to figure out who it is.
P.S. Personally, my choice would be Paul Graham (measured by the number of his essays I read and liked).
Define "the best", and it won't take much time to figure out who it is.
P.S. Personally, my choice would be Paul Graham (measured by the number of his essays I read and liked).
The nice guy ;) behind linux and git.
The people working on LibreSSL?
ruby on rails fan guy here and i adore what ddh has created.
Aaron Patterson continues to make Rails awesome (check his RailsConf 2014 keynote). To me (and a lot of folks I know) he is the most inspiring programmer today.
His positive attitude, dedication to making software better, and continuous stream of hilarious tweets are unparalleled.
His positive attitude, dedication to making software better, and continuous stream of hilarious tweets are unparalleled.
Fully agree. Contributors like Aaron patterson and jose valim are the accelerator which keeps the Rails project healthy today.
I rather say that I adore DDH just because he has entrepreneur, hacker and developer which i want to became in near future.
Furthermore, i very much inspired with Aaron Patterson peepcode screenshot.
I rather say that I adore DDH just because he has entrepreneur, hacker and developer which i want to became in near future.
Furthermore, i very much inspired with Aaron Patterson peepcode screenshot.
Steve Wozniak!
me, because i said so
Inspired by the same question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Computer-Programming/Who-is-the-best-programmer-in-the-world-right-now
Who do you think is the best programmer in the world right now and why ?