Another great one is zzzeek's mako templating, by far my favorite templating language: http://docs.makotemplates.org/
Anytime I write a web frontend in anything other than Python, I miss it very dearly. But really it's well-suited for any kind of templating work, even code generating—I've seen a few projects use it to generate C code. It's very powerful and doesn't try to dumb itself down because of some dogma about not using logic in templates.
He reminds me of TJ Hollowaychuk, who singlehandedly wrote most of Express.js. Makes me wonder what the node community would be without him.
TJ is a group, like Nicolas Bourbaki.
I didn't know that, thanks. Could you cite a reference?
Parent might not have meant it as fact but rather in reference to this: https://medium.com/@kelas/how-is-tj-holowaychuk-so-insanely-...
I don't believe this to be generally regarded as true.
Even more amazing, at the time Mike started SQLAlchemy, his day job was working in Java... So SQLAlchemy was a total side project. I don't know if that has changed.
Mike is a master.
Yeah you can sense the Java experience, SQLAlchemy is what Hibernate wishes it could be :)
I believe I read that someone hired him to work on SQLAlchemy full time.
I work for Red Hat in the Openstack group. I can spend part of my time working on SQLAlchemy upstream as it is a core component of Openstack. But we still take donations!! http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ :) :)
What makes it especially amazing is that Mike Bayer has written 90 % of the code base by himself (https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/graphs/contributors), which somtimes makes me wonder if he is a real person or just a pseudonym under which a group of talented programmers publish code ;)