Who's the greatest living programmer?
>>107550362Most certainly none of the above. The best programmer, you'll never have heard of him. You are looking at salesmen.
>>1075503622 of them spend 20 millions of them dollaridoos in useless stuff such as giving 12 free games every december, remastering a game no one cares about and showing their new shit game on TGA.The other one wastes billions of someone else's money trying to improve technology.I made my choice.
>>107550362Me
>>107550362AI
Ken Thompson.
>>107552366Checked
>>107550362systemd/linux torvalds
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>>107552895I miss the early 2010s
>>107550362Drew Devault, hands down.
>>107553159lol
>>107553169??
>>107550362Carmack made the most innovations, Tim Sweeney had the most successful engine. The guy in the middle doesn't stand out in any way.
>>107552366I feel like he definitely was. I'm not sure if he ever would have consider himself to be. Not sure if he still is.
>>107550362carmack cause i'm a gaymerguy pushed for latency reduction between input and output, the only kind of gains that matter in cybernetic systems
>>107550362One of those people developing AI, that the companies keep fighting over. There's some dozen of them probably and you can't get education for it yet, so they're mostly self taught too. They just don't have huge internet presence.
>>107550362Tim Fortnite because those gay ass capshit uses his game engine for the movies.
>>107550449no, me.
>>107550362>who>lmao>yeah Carmack's at least a very good programmer