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Re: Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?

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Post by rtpg »

suprjami wrote: post #10

FTL and Into The Breach are made by two developers, Justin and Matt of Subset Games. Woz wrote all the Apple I and II software. Cave Story, a metroidvania still actively ported to new platforms today. Doom had a very small team, Carmack doing most/all of the engine work. Dwarf Fortress is by two developers, and simulates its environment down to a very precise level of detail. Many more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/…

Axiom Verge was written by one person (even the music, in his words "that was the easiest part").

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Post by hairofadog »

The Acorn image editor for macOS by Gus Mueller is shockingly polished for a one-person project. I use it all the time. In my few times interacting with him through support he’s been really kind as well.

https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

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Post by mharig »

Wondered that nobody mentioned Latex. I didn't look at the source code, but Laslie Lamport said he would pay a price (1000 USD?) for every error detected, and AFAIR he never had to pay a single dime. So the code should be qualifying for 'excellent'.

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Post by sixhobbits »

I'm not sure about "a single person" but I believe Flask and Requests (both Python libraries) are/were at least strongly connected to a single 'creator' (Armin Ronacher and Kenneth Reitz respectively) that come to mind for me, though both have larger communities of contributors these days.

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Post by ilyt »

irthomasthomas wrote: post #38
davideberdin wrote: post #25

Redis I would say, by Salvatore Sanfilippo ( https://github.com/antirez )

OG redis was great. I think post-antirez it has grown too complex. I'd be interested in a redis-lite fork.

It's kinda natural evolution. It started with "just a KV store with few extras" and just grew more and more and more extras over time. It's "... and the kitchen sink" of databases.

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Post by iExploder »

psychphysic wrote: post #11
mikeodds wrote: post #4

TempleOS RIP Terry A. David https://templeos.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

Quote from Terry A. David > I asked God about racism? He said, "sports".[0] He's an interesting case in the balance between autonomy and bad decisions. Apparently his schizophrenia was easily controlled but he didn't want to give up what he felt was a direct line to God. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis

what is worse, to suffer being yourself or suffer being not yourself? meds are not always the answer...

we all have to go out eventually, some have the "luxury" of choosing the way we go

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