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Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by timschumi on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @12:52PM (#46367393)
It's unfortunate that he uploaded this without notable commit history, it would be interesting to see how long it takes a programmer of his caliber to bring up a project like this.

That said, judging by the license file this was based on QuickJS anyway, making it a moot comparison.

Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by k4rli on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @03:52PM (#46369344)
It does say "public repository of..." implying there's a non-public one with real history. Not sure why not upload the main one though.
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by zarzavat on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @11:17PM (#46372396)
If he's anything like me (doubtful but roll with it), the commit history when prototyping is probably something like "commit", "commit", "fixed a bug", etc.
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by incognito124 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @01:28PM (#46367820)
Maybe he just oneshotted it
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by agumonkey on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @01:57PM (#46368142)
Maybe claude code uses bellard as agent
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by MisterTea on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @02:01PM (#46368202)
Claude is really Bellard sitting in his kitchen, sipping coffee, casually replying to code requests while getting ready for his day.
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by christophilus on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @03:49PM (#46369306)
This explains a lot. Opus 4.5 gives you access to Bellard after his second cup of coffee.
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by oblio on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @03:27PM (#46369120)
A sort of reverse code golf where he doesn't care what he sends as all that code will never touch his prod code bases.
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by deafpolygon on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @03:40AM (#46373699)
Is Bellard the “Chuck Norris” of Programming?
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by StopDisinfo910 on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @04:13AM (#46373909)
He is extremely productive in its specialty: the intersection of programming language and system programming. I don't think that makes him superhuman.

It's more a model of what a really talented person who applies themselves building things they enjoy building can do.

I prefer thinking of it this way: if Bellard can make a small JS engine from scratch by himself, what's really stoping you from knocking down this library you are thinking about.

Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by throwup238 on Thursday December 25, 2025 @02:33PM (#46386551)
> He is extremely productive in its specialty: the intersection of programming language and system programming.

Why do you say that specifically is his specialty? He also started QEMU and ffmpeg which are foundational pieces of software for several industries, and his day job is as founder of a company that makes software defined radio test equipment for cellular networks. There isn't one thing I could point at as a specialty.

Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by StopDisinfo910 on Friday December 26, 2025 @04:41PM (#46396592)
All of this seems to fit the bill pretty closely to me.

Ffmpeg uses a ton of arcane C and assembly knowledge to make multimedia system manageable and efficient. QEMU uses dynamic binary translation for hardware emulation and virtualization. Amarisoft speciality is basically using software to do things which are usually done by hardware.

The intersection of programming language and system programming seems to me like a pretty fair description of what Fabrice Bellard is extremely good at.

Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by khazhoux on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @04:18PM (#46369574)
"You're right! I apologize for the confusion. I am, in fact, Fabrice Bellard. Comment allez-vous?"
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by saagarjha on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @08:13PM (#46371382)
I’d expect much better results, honestly
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS by ale on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @06:28PM (#46370727)
It's Fabrice so there's a chance he did