History & Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Dave Halter for creating and maintaining Jedi & Parso.
Takafumi Arakaki (@tkf) for creating a solid test environment and a lot of other things.
Danilo Bargen (@dbrgn) for general housekeeping and being a good friend :).
Guido van Rossum (@gvanrossum) for creating the parser generator pgen2 (originally used in lib2to3).
Thanks to all the contributors.
A Little Bit of History
Written by Dave.
The Star Wars Jedi are awesome. My Jedi software tries to imitate a little bit of the precognition the Jedi have. There’s even an awesome scene of Monty Python Jedis :-).
But actually the name has not much to do with Star Wars. It’s part of my second name Jedidjah.
I actually started Jedi back in 2012, because there were no good solutions available for VIM. Most auto-completion solutions just did not work well. The only good solution was PyCharm. But I liked my good old VIM very much. There was also a solution called Rope that did not work at all for me. So I decided to write my own version of a completion engine.
The first idea was to execute non-dangerous code. But I soon realized, that this would not work. So I started to build a static analysis tool. The biggest problem that I had at the time was that I did not know a thing about parsers. I did not even know the word static analysis. It turns out they are the foundation of a good static analysis tool. I of course did not know that and tried to write my own poor version of a parser that I ended up throwing away two years later.
Because of my lack of knowledge, everything after 2012 and before 2020 was basically refactoring. I rewrote the core parts of Jedi probably like 5-10 times. The last big rewrite (that I did twice) was the inclusion of gradual typing and stubs.
I learned during that time that it is crucial to have a good understanding of your problem. Otherwise you just end up doing it again. I only wrote features in the beginning and in the end. Everything else was bugfixing and refactoring. However now I am really happy with the result. It works well, bugfixes can be quick and is pretty much feature complete.
I will leave you with a small anecdote that happened in 2012, if I remember correctly. After I explained Guido van Rossum, how some parts of my auto-completion work, he said:
“Oh, that worries me…”
Now that it is finished, I hope he likes it :-).
Code Contributors
Danilo Bargen (@dbrgn) <mail@dbrgn.ch>
Laurens Van Houtven (@lvh) <_@lvh.cc>
Aldo Stracquadanio (@Astrac) <aldo.strac@gmail.com>
Jean-Louis Fuchs (@ganwell) <ganwell@fangorn.ch>
tek (@tek)
Yasha Borevich (@jjay) <j.borevich@gmail.com>
Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>
andviro (@andviro)
Mike Gilbert (@floppym) <floppym@gentoo.org>
Aaron Meurer (@asmeurer) <asmeurer@gmail.com>
Lubos Trilety <ltrilety@redhat.com>
Akinori Hattori (@hattya) <hattya@gmail.com>
srusskih (@srusskih)
Steven Silvester (@blink1073)
Colin Duquesnoy (@ColinDuquesnoy) <colin.duquesnoy@gmail.com>
Jorgen Schaefer (@jorgenschaefer) <contact@jorgenschaefer.de>
Fredrik Bergroth (@fbergroth)
Mathias Fußenegger (@mfussenegger)
Syohei Yoshida (@syohex) <syohex@gmail.com>
ppalucky (@ppalucky)
immerrr (@immerrr) immerrr@gmail.com
Albertas Agejevas (@alga)
Savor d’Isavano (@KenetJervet) <newelevenken@163.com>
Phillip Berndt (@phillipberndt) <phillip.berndt@gmail.com>
Ian Lee (@IanLee1521) <IanLee1521@gmail.com>
Farkhad Khatamov (@hatamov) <comsgn@gmail.com>
Kevin Kelley (@kelleyk) <kelleyk@kelleyk.net>
Sid Shanker (@squidarth) <sid.p.shanker@gmail.com>
Reinoud Elhorst (@reinhrst)
Guido van Rossum (@gvanrossum) <guido@python.org>
Dmytro Sadovnychyi (@sadovnychyi) <jedi@dmit.ro>
Cristi Burcă (@scribu)
bstaint (@bstaint)
Mathias Rav (@Mortal) <rav@cs.au.dk>
Daniel Fiterman (@dfit99) <fitermandaniel2@gmail.com>
Simon Ruggier (@sruggier)
Élie Gouzien (@ElieGouzien)
Robin Roth (@robinro)
Malte Plath (@langsamer)
Anton Zub (@zabulazza)
Maksim Novikov (@m-novikov) <mnovikov.work@gmail.com>
Tobias Rzepka (@TobiasRzepka)
micbou (@micbou)
Dima Gerasimov (@karlicoss) <karlicoss@gmail.com>
Max Woerner Chase (@mwchase) <max.chase@gmail.com>
Johannes Maria Frank (@jmfrank63) <jmfrank63@gmail.com>
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld (@shanest) <ssshanest@gmail.com>
Tim Gates (@timgates42) <tim.gates@iress.com>
Lior Goldberg (@goldberglior)
Ryan Clary (@mrclary)
Max Mäusezahl (@mmaeusezahl) <maxmaeusezahl@googlemail.com>
Vladislav Serebrennikov (@endilll)
Andrii Kolomoiets (@muffinmad)
Leo Ryu (@Leo-Ryu)
Joseph Birkner (@josephbirkner)
Márcio Mazza (@marciomazza)
And a few more “anonymous” contributors.
Note: (@user) means a github user name.