bulat.ziganshin: > Hello Andrew, > > Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 10:28:45 PM, you wrote: > > > I had always *assumed* that there was something like a hundred core > > developers > > only 10 and only in binary system :))) > > Simon Peyton-Jones works on "front-end", i.e compiling Haskell down to > simple core language, and Simon Marlow does "back-end" i.e. compiling > this to actual machine code and dealing with idiosyncrasies of all > target systems. and Ian Lynagh is "Build engineer" maintaining > releases, bug tracking and so on > > there are dozens of people doing interesting things with GHC and some > of them are even going to main tree. and there are interns that > implements some rather small and isolated parts of GHC. and dozen or > so of people porting GHC to their environment, building packages and > so on >
About 1000 people have worked on libraries on Hackage. That's about two orders of magnitude more than work on GHC. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe