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After years of using other architectures and thinking really hard about what worked and what didn't.
And Notch would obsessively play Dwarf Fortress before writing any code for Minecraft. The distinction between influence and contribution is a fine line. It's worth studying so aspirants understand no achievement exists in a vacuum, but not a means to divide something between solo and collaboration.
Surprised nobody has said Denis Ritchie and C. Also, the architecture of Corbosier. Lots of other examples exist in architecture. Great question, by the way.
Your comment made me think of Hundertwasser's architecture: https://www.hundertwasser.com/en/architecture , another example.
The Clojure programming language was a single person effort in the first years and all of the design and implementation was done by Rich Hickey in the first version (2 years of work, not counting previous experience). He was burned out from the state of commercial programming around the time and funded a sabbatical with his pension savings to work on Clojure. He had at least 3 attempts to bridge Common Lisp and the J…
Richard Stallman: Gnu Emacs, GCC, GNU Debugger, GNU make. They all started as one man projects. Then others started to contribute little, then more.