Thanks
This list, arranged alphabetically, highlights individuals who have played a key role in creating tools and technologies I use regularly. While it doesn't cover everything they have accomplished, it focuses on the projects that have personally benefited me and for which I'm deeply grateful.
| Name | For |
|---|---|
| Aaron Griffin | Arch Linux |
| Agner Fog | low-level optimization |
| Allan McRae | Arch Linux |
| Axel Liljencrantz | fish shell |
| Ben Deane | Using Types Effectively |
| Benjamin Sago | exa |
| Brian Kernighan | Unix |
| Chris Lattner | LLVM |
| Chris Wellons | null program blog |
| Dennis Ritchie | C, Unix |
| Eben Upton | Raspberry Pi |
| Fabian Boehm | fish shell |
| Fabrice Bellard | FFmpeg, TCC and QEMU |
| Félix Cloutier | online x86 reference |
| Fernando Borretti | Austral |
| Greg Kroah-Hartman | Linux |
| Ian Lance Taylor | Go, essay on linkers |
| Jakob Waibel | lurk |
| Jeff Geerling | SBC reviews |
| John Gruber | Markdown |
| Judd Vinet | Arch Linux |
| Junio Hamano | Git |
| Ken Thompson | Go, Unix |
| Kristian Høgsberg | Wayland |
| Levente Polyák | Arch Linux |
| Linus Torvalds | Git, Linux |
| Lunny Xiao | Gitea |
| Matt Godbolt | Compiler Explorer |
| Matt Holt | Caddy |
| Peter Cordes | low-level optimization |
| Rob Pike | Go |
| Robert Griesemer | Go |
| Simon Ser | Wayland |
| Terry Davis | TempleOS, simplicity |
| Vaxry | Hyprland |
| Zachary Yedidia | online arm64 reference |