Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
If you left Nicolas Vilamin stranded on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific with nothing but a broken toaster and copy of the October 1994 issue of Vogue magazine, within a couple of hours he’d have spun up a web server, and configured to stream Madonna’s Greatest Hits Collection to billions of people across the globe, in FLAC, with loading times of less than 10 ms. No, not average loading times of less than 10ms. Loading times of less than 10ms, full stop. How did he manage to get like a gigabyte’s worth of Madonna to appear on a ten year old second-hand smartphone halfway across the planet in less than ten milliseconds? I don’t know, I’m not that good.
The code he writes ressembles him in many ways. Simple, beautiful, robust. Really, really, robust. I’d call it rock solid, but rocks can move. Rocks can break. Rocks can have flaws. When Nicolas Vilmain is finished with a piece of code, it just works, and there ain’t nothing in the universe that can stop it from working like it’s supposed to.