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Modern software infrastructure in a nutshell (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] HMH@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Daniel Stenberg's curl, Mark Adler's zlib and perhaps Bram Moolenaar's vim come to mind, AFAIK those are mostly one man shows. Do you have other perhaps better examples?

[–] freely@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago

alsa-lib or crypto++ 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.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago

Very close to home since it's what Lemmy uses: Actix. And we almost lost the head dev at one point, too.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Guy maintaining GPG email tools is another good example.

[–] relejek@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Such powerful code/tool yet such sad story of its created and maintainer. Couldnt any Foss foundation help them?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

I think there might've been some community funding after the story, but I haven't followed up in a while.