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History & Acknowledgements
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Acknowledgements
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- Dave Halter for creating and maintaining Jedi & Parso.
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- Takafumi Arakaki (@tkf) for creating a solid test environment and a lot of
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other things.
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- Danilo Bargen (@dbrgn) for general housekeeping and being a good friend :).
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- Guido van Rossum (@gvanrossum) for creating the parser generator pgen2
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(originally used in lib2to3).
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- Thanks to all the :ref:`contributors <contributors>`.
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A Little Bit of History
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Written by Dave.
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The Star Wars Jedi are awesome. My Jedi software tries to imitate a little bit
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of the precognition the Jedi have. There's even an awesome `scene
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<https://youtu.be/yHRJLIf7wMU>`_ of Monty Python Jedis :-).
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But actually the name has not much to do with Star Wars. It's part of my
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second name Jedidjah.
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I actually started Jedi back in 2012, because there were no good solutions
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available for VIM. Most auto-completion solutions just did not work well. The
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only good solution was PyCharm. But I liked my good old VIM very much. There
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was also a solution called Rope that did not work at all for me. So I decided
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to write my own version of a completion engine.
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The first idea was to execute non-dangerous code. But I soon realized, that
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this would not work. So I started to build a static analysis tool.
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The biggest problem that I had at the time was that I did not know a thing
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about parsers.I did not did not even know the word static analysis. It turns
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out they are the foundation of a good static analysis tool. I of course did not
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know that and tried to write my own poor version of a parser that I ended up
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throwing away two years later.
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Because of my lack of knowledge, everything after 2012 and before 2020 was
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basically refactoring. I rewrote the core parts of Jedi probably like 5-10
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times. The last big rewrite (that I did twice) was the inclusion of
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gradual typing and stubs.
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I learned during that time that it is crucial to have a good understanding of
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your problem. Otherwise you just end up doing it again. I only wrote features
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in the beginning and in the end. Everything else was bugfixing and refactoring.
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However now I am really happy with the result. It works well, bugfixes can be
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quick and is pretty much feature complete.
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--------
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I will leave you with a small annectote that happend in 2012, if I remember
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correctly. After I explained Guido van Rossum, how some parts of my
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auto-completion work, he said:
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*"Oh, that worries me..."*
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Now that it is finished, I hope he likes it :-).
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.. _contributors:
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.. include:: ../../AUTHORS.txt
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