Comment by mtlynch
21 hours ago
People talk about how productive Fabrice Bellard is, but I don't think anyone appreciates just how productive he is.
Here's the commit history for this project
b700a4d (2025-12-22T1420) - Creates an empty project with an MIT license
295a36b (2025-12-22T1432) - Implements the JavaScript engine, the C API, the REPL, and all documentation
He went from zero to a complete JS implementation in just 12 minutes!
I couldn't do that even if you gave me twice as much time.
Okay, but seriously, this is super cool, and I continue to be amazed by Fabrice. I honestly do think it would be interesting to do an analysis of a day or week of Fabrice's commits to see if there's something about his approach that others can apply besides just being a hardworking genius.
It's funny how many people replying here just got whooshed. This comment is satire; they don't actually think Bellard wrote everything in 12 minutes.
Doesn't say much. Probably had it largely written down and put it together. I don't think it'd even be humanely possible to do that in 12 minutes.
That doesn't mean anything. I quite often start with writing a proof-of-concept, and only initialize the git repository when I'm confident the POC will actually lead to something useful. Common sense says that those files already existed at the time of the first commit.
I wonder how do you not understand this was a joke. Did you not fully read it? Or it's just not obvious enough?
When you code with butterflies, you code at the speed of flight.
https://www.xkcd.com/378/