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Maybe I’m missing a joke here but to me “godbolt is a real person” seems way out of place. Compiler Explorer is a great contribution to the community and he gives informative and humorous presentations. I would like to know why he got dragged into this list.

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A lot of programmers refer to the compiler explorer as Godbolt due to the domain name, such as saying "Godbolt link", "try it on Godbolt", etc. They do not realise that the domain name is Godbolt.org not because "Godbolt" is the name for the compiler explorer, but that the creator/maintainer's name is... Matthew Godbolt.

I personally found out the domain was named after the creator when I saw a CppCon talk about the explorer from him!

No seriously, my colleagues when I told them though he was a comic book character.

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