Carmack calls Bellard a better programmer, and HN can't find a single interview (twitter.com)
The praise came wrapped in qualifiers — "almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am" — and a commenter called out the hedging directly.
Then a counter-voice landed: Bellard hasn't touched FFmpeg in over 20 years, none of his original code survives, yet he alone still controls who may use the FFmpeg name.
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