Comment by RickJWagner

Linus brought us Linux and Git. To me, he's probably the greatest programmer of our time.

James Strachan brought us Camel and Groovy. That's pretty good.

Gavin King had Hibernate and Seam. Not too shabby, either.

There are definitely people who are very good. To me, having more than one runaway hit is a good indicator.

But there are a very few of them.