John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am. A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual
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6/16/2026
John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am. A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual
twitter.com
1 min
6/16/2026
John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am. A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual
twitter.com
1 min
6/16/2026
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