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by emmanueloga_ 4235 days ago
Interesting distribution of contributors [1]. Usually what I see on most projects is one or two guys contributing the most of the code since the start of the repository, with minor contributors coming and going. These contributors chart seem to show different guys taking the helm at different points on time though.

1: https://github.com/urbit/urbit/graphs/contributors
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emmanueloga_ 4235 days ago
BTW, since I know how much does the hackernews crowd appreciate baseless speculation (sorry!), I'd add this: I wonder if Ryan Dahl is involved with this project. Working on something like this would be compatible with some of the things he wrote about before disappearing [1].

1: http://xahlee.info/comp/Ryan_Dahl_on_software_complexity.htm...

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Scaevolus 4235 days ago
Not quite. It looks like urbit has imported the histories of multiple other projects.

LibUV: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/graphs/contributors Re2: https://code.google.com/p/re2/source/list

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state 4235 days ago
Hm. Not sure how that happened. We have had a number of different contributors.
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