Fabrice Bellard: The Unknown French Engineer Behind Core Internet Streaming Technology
By
John Carmack
Toasted to a respectable shade. No regrets, no crumbs left.
Summary
A social media post praising Fabrice Bellard, a French engineer who has quietly developed foundational software used across the internet for 30 years, including code that streams video content on platforms like YouTube, Netflix, and TikTok. The author acknowledges Bellard as a superior programmer.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI 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.
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