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Who Made RIDDL Possible?

Originator

Reid Spencer

  • Deeply experienced system architect, software developer, and entrepreneur.
  • Initiated RIDDL in 2019 and started committing changes to the repository at the end of 2021
  • Founder of Reactific Software LLC, which became Ossum Inc. in 2022.

Contributors

James Lovell

The original enthusiast, co-conspirator, shaper, and user of the language, etc. RIDDL wouldn't be where it is today without James' contributions.

Kevin D'Vincenzo

An early implementor of a hugo translator that inspired much of the current implementation.

James F. Spencer

The originator's son, who provided foundational work on Synapify; it wouldn't exist without him because of his deep UI/UX knowledge and know-how. His original architecture (Electron, Rete, Scala.js) is still in place and doing the job well.

Foundational Work

Bertrand Meyer

For the notion of command/query separation which led to CQRS

Bjørn Erik Pedersen

Creator of hugo

Daniel Terhorst-North

Creator of Gherkin

Edward F. Moore

Originator of the Finite State Machine

Eric Brewer

Originator of the CAP Theorem

Eric Evans

Originated DDD and authored seminal books on DDD:

Hector Garcia-Molina & Ken Salem

Creators of the Saga Pattern

Jonas Bonér

Creator of Akka and many distributed system patterns

Kent Beck

Creator of eXtreme Programming

Li Haoyi

Creator of fastparse used to parse RIDDL.

Robert Kaussow

Creator of the Geekdoc theme for Hugo

Simon Brown

Creator of the C4 Model For Software Architecture

Vaughn Vernon

Author of Domain Driven Design Distilled