I’m asking genuinely: What’s the point of linking to Carmack’s tweet? The intellectual curiosity (what HN is ostensibly about) is all in the quoted tweet (despite it being written like an LLM trained on LinkedIn posts). Carmack isn’t really adding anything of importance or interest. Linking to him feels a bit cult of personality, as if Bellard is deserving of attention because Carmack gave some vague praise with qualifiers. Why not link directly to the quoted tweet, or even the Wikipedia page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

Surely we are all capable of understanding Bellard’s contributions and judge them on their own merits without needing some famous programmer to point directly at it and saying “this good”.

Fabrice is kind of like a space explorer. He goes where few people went before.

I think I first noticed this either with regard to JSLinux, or possibly some software he wrote before that; don't fully remember which year. It's like some people go deliberately to more unique problems with regards to software that actually works in achieving that outcome, whatever the outcome may be.

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Fabrice Bellard is the actual greatest programmer that has ever lived.

Carmack's "almost certainly" doesn't look good here.

#howtomakethisaboutme "Almost certainly better than I am", eff off Carmack.