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bash and readline - Chet Ramey. Both originally by Brian Fox https://twobithistory.org/2019/08/22/readline.html maybe less of a bus factor now with OSH approaching feature/speed parity and having more maintainers https://www.oilshell.org/
Sure, your vendor will probably fix bugs, but it may take some time until they find someone who has any knowledge of that codebase and survived last week's reshuffle, the re-org in spring and last year's buyout.
Php
I'm surprised to hear this, any more info?
https://thephp.foundation/structure/
"Core Developers The PHP Foundation contracts 10 full-time and part-time engineers to maintain and develop the PHP language."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308894462_What_is_t...
In this thread: Wildly different definitions of what "widely used" means :) Did you know tools like uname [1] and cat [2] in GNU coreutils have essentially only had two contributors in the past decade? [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=histor... [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=histor...
I found it quite a good read!
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