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the rust project has a burnout problem
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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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That's a hell of an assumption. I know a number of Arm GCC and LLVM hackers who are all employed by various companies including Arm themselves. It's in chip designers/manufacturers interest to have good GCC support for their architecture.
Of course hardware vendors have a vested interested in GCC support, and of course there are a lot of people paid to work on GCC! But the claim above was that GCC and Linux are "mostly" maintained by people paid to work on them. I don't actually know how to measure that (I thought I might be able to find a quick answer by googling, but no such luck), but even if it's true now, I seriously doubt it's been true for the majority of GCC's very long history.
I also specifically didn't mention LLVM because it's very closely associated with both Apple and Google.
The other claim was that fewer Rust maintainers are paid to work on Rust. But there are in fact quite a few people paid to work on Rust full time, and there have been throughout its history; most obviously at Mozilla, but even though Mozilla has since let go of its Rust language team, Amazon has a significant team of Rust maintainers (several of them from Mozilla), and I believe Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, and possibly Google do as well.
So as far as I can tell, (early) GCC, Linux, and Rust all have a mix of paid and unpaid maintainers.
I added gitdm stats awhile back although the mappings could certainly do with some clean-up. For the last year of activity the stats are:
Sorry, what project is this? GCC?
Sorry yes this was GCC, I can do the same for the rust repo if you want.
That would be helpful! Thank you.
It looks like a lot of mappings need adding as most people come up as unknown:
EDIT updated with newer mappings.
the top contributors over the last year were: