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Worth mentioning that Cowboy is pretty much a one man show: Loïc Hoguin

• vanderZwan 9y ago
  This always fills me with awe and dread at the same time (technically speaking the "awe" should cover the "dread" part but nobody uses it that way these days). I'm in awe at the achievement, and combination of vision, drive, knowledge, and skills that the maintainer must possess (or even more inspiring: has built up along the way). I dread the bus factor[0], or the more common weaker form of "maintainer is forced to move on from this project or just loses interest before someone else takes over and is worked in, and a lot of necessary tacit knowledge[1] is lost in the hand-over". EDIT: Actually, I'm one to talk, working as the sole programmer at a research group... Given the required optimizations for its niche my code gets pretty hairy. I should plan a few weeks of pure cleanup and extra commenting, and general documentation. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge