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LLVM has hundreds of developers these days. Chris wrote a ton of the initial code, but he's no longer the "primary developer". The project's big enough now to n
by bla2 11y ago
LLVM has hundreds of developers these days. Chris wrote a ton of the initial code, but he's no longer the "primary developer". The project's big enough now to no longer have a primary developer.
- belorn 11y agoWhere ever I check, Chris is listed as lead/director for the llvm project. Isn't this exactly like the position Linus has for the Linux project?
- glhaynes 11y agoI think there's a big difference between "lead/director" and "primary". I wouldn't ever call Linus the primary developer of Linux (well, at least not after the early '90s) but "lead" sounds much closer to right.
- DannyBee 11y agoI don't think he really considers himself either at this point, to be honest. He's just a member of the board of the foundation.
- chrislattner 11y agoCorrect. If anything, I'm a founder. LLVM and Clang are much much larger than my own contributions, and I haven't been particularly active lately. That said, I have contributed a lot of code. In LLVM for example, about 20% of the total commits to the project are mine: https://www.openhub.net/p/llvm/contributors?query=&sort=commits https://www.openhub.net/p/llvm/contributors?query=&sort=comm... Luckily, the other 80% are ripping out my terrible code and replacing it :-)