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Wait, what? One week? How much coffee was necessary for that?
The core of Git isn't that complicated. A merkle tree backed by a content-addressable store. That's very much in the realm of possible within a week. It wasn't very easy to use in it's first iteration. All of the porcelain that has been built around it is where 90% of the development has gone.
List of video games supposedly developed by just one person: https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-14-best-games-developed... I say supposedly because I know Jonathan Blow paid someone to do all the art for Braid, and licensed all the music (I even saw him demo Braid before release with his programmer art at GDC back in 2008, it did not look anywhere near as pretty, so he made the right choice). But the artwork was so…
Breakout. Built by Steve Wozniak, solely. Exploited by Steve Jobs, Solely. For Atari. Chuck E Cheeses - Founded by founder of Atari, Solely.
Really stretching the definition of solely when you have to ignore the people who did all the actual work in creating chuck e cheeses - i can “create” a restaurant, but without cooks, servers, hosts, graphic designers, construction/reno people, etc. it’s not going to be fun for the whole family
List of video games supposedly developed by just one person: https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-14-best-games-developed... I say supposedly because I know Jonathan Blow paid someone to do all the art for Braid, and licensed all the music (I even saw him demo Braid before release with his programmer art at GDC back in 2008, it did not look anywhere near as pretty, so he made the right choice). But the artwork was so…
Lucas Pope is for sure a solo dev. He wrote a custom shader for Obra Dinn while he was also writing the storyline. It's a pretty incredible feat.
https://www.nirsoft.net/about_nirsoft_freeware.html Tiny utilities (typically under 100 kb), no ads, available for free, and they do exactly what they say very efficiently. The site has been around since 2001.
7-Zip, LZ4, Zstd.
Surprised no one mentioned git. Made over the course of a single week by Linus Torvalds,
Wait, what? One week? How much coffee was necessary for that?
Programmers used to be pretty damn productive.
Surprised no one mentioned git. Made over the course of a single week by Linus Torvalds,
Wait, what? One week? How much coffee was necessary for that?
The core of git is brutally simple and efficient, and maps incredibly well to "a linked list (and hash) of files serialized to disk".
Someone wrote somewhere "I used to wonder if Linus was a genius but Git proves it to be true. Anybody could have (re-)written a *NIX implementation, but Linus invented Git from whole cloth."
Surprised no one mentioned git. Made over the course of a single week by Linus Torvalds,
Wait, what? One week? How much coffee was necessary for that?