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Daniel Stenberg's
curl
, Mark Adler'szlib
and perhaps Bram Moolenaar'svim
come to mind, AFAIK those are mostly one man shows. Do you have other perhaps better examples?Guy maintaining GPG email tools is another good example.
Such powerful code/tool yet such sad story of its created and maintainer. Couldnt any Foss foundation help them?
I think there might've been some community funding after the story, but I haven't followed up in a while.
Very close to home since it's what Lemmy uses: Actix. And we almost lost the head dev at one point, too.
alsa-lib
orcrypto++
maybe? Not technically one person, but a majority of it is.Maybe a bit pedantic, but I don't think Vim really applies since it's not a lib.