So devs. Who are your programming heroes?

Mine are John Carmack and Dennis Richtie.

@rothens 💚

Dennis Ritchie :)

Steve Wozniak and Satoshi Nakamoto

Anyone who chooses to become a dev because of the craft and not the money. Those that care more than just the immediate "how", but to truly desire to understand the workings of a system or framework.

Typical Problem Googled:
"How do I marshal an unmanaged C++ DLL into my C# application."

The person above just cares about solving the immediate problem. Which is completely acceptable.

Developer wanting to understand:
"Why are C++ and C# dlls considered to be different? Since DLLs don't have a main, are they loaded into their own memory space or share memory space with the process using it? If I remove a used DLL, will applications crash immediately on startup? Or will everything work until the function in the missing DLL is called? Does it make a difference if it's C# or C++ dlls? What is the delayed DLL loading feature vs the default loading behavior? Why are DLLs placed in a GAC?"

Sorry for block of text (char limit). But the latter people are my heroes the inquisitive devs.

kernighan

That man can write

Jeffery Way (Laracasts) is a web artisan.

Niklaus wirth

A friend of mine actually

@MakubeX that's me. The crazy fool that wrote an HTTP server, an IRC server and client, and reproduced many other application layer and transport layer protocols because I really wanted to understand how they worked.