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.