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by foooobar 1830 days ago
I think Kevin is asserting that to make strong comparative claims about the quality of either system, it's good to have a large and functionally similar body of work to compare the systems with, not that there is no way to improve on Lean's core :)

MSR funds a single developer. The Lean community consists of at least 30 or so active contributors right now, with many more having contributed in the past. Most folks work in academia. Much of Lean's success is absolutely due to the work of that single developer, but I don't think that the playing field is uneven due to MSR's funding.