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Koichi Sasada first contributed Ruby 1.9 VM(YARV) & now new GC algo. Its amazing that how much big dent an single person can make to a language/ecosystem used b

• steveklabnik 13y ago
  Like many Open Source projects, there's a long tail of development with Ruby. 4 or 5 people make up 80% (roughly speaking) of the commits. It's even easier to see with http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/ http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/ : The top 2 people have 4,000 vs 3,000 commits, 1/3rd more than the 3rd person. 3rd and 4th have 3,000 vs 2,000, 1/2 more than the fifth. 6th has half of the commits that 4th does. I myself only started working on Rails about a year ago, and got 192 commits in that time. That places me at #33 overall, out of 1735. ------------------------------- It's also interesting to look at numbers for releases, too. Here's Rails 4, for example: http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/edge/contributors http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/edge/contributors Same thing, smaller scale. ------------------------------- I'm not saying this invalidates your point in any way, just that it's the same for almost all projects; precious few people do much of the work that we rely on every day.