[aidos]

Does anyone know much about the Artifex team? How big it is etc?

They seem to be the kings of working with PDFs. I’ve not really looked at the Ghostscript code (and I’m surprised to hear their interpreter was still in postscript), but I’ve looked through the mupdf code and what I saw was really nice.

In any case, I appreciate the work they’ve done in providing fantastic tools to the world for decades now.

[petilon]

I don't know the current team, but I have met its founder: L. Peter Deutsch [1].

James Gosling, inventor of Java, once described him as the "greatest programmer in the world". They both used to work at Sun Microsystems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Peter_Deutsch

[skemper911]

Three of the greatest programmers I've experienced worked there, Peter, Tor, Raph. Hats off.

[madmoose]

Strangely this appears to be a new implementation not based on MuPDF, so Artifex now has two implementations of a PDF interpreter.

I wonder what made them decide to reimplement it instead of reusing their existing code.

[PoignardAzur]

Currently working at Artifex.

AFAICT, it's roughly 30 people, mostly seniors.

> but I’ve looked through the mupdf code and what I saw was really nice.

It is! Best onboarding experience I've ever had.