Project Tamarind, once so promising and bespoken project… was co-owned by Adobe Systems and Mozilla Foundation, and has been discontinued for more than 3 years now…
However, the sad state of this cool OpenSource project is that it hasn’t been touched since March 2008…
The members from Adobe are mostly names I have never heard of so I sincerely wonder what have become of them (perhaps they are still engineering in the dungeons of San Jose), anyways check the names out for yourself…
- Brent Baker, Adobe
- Jeff Dyer, Adobe, module co-owner, compilers
- Brendan Eich, Mozilla, CTO and JavaScript creator
- Moh Haghighat, Intel, VTune lead
- Mark Hammond, ScreamingMonkey lead
- Lars T Hansen, Adobe
- Graydon Hoare, Mozilla
- Jason Orendorff, Mozilla, ActionMonkey lead
- Chris Peyer, Adobe
- Tom Reilly, Adobe, MMGC creator
- Rick Reitmaier, Adobe
- Dan Schaffer, Adobe
- Seo Sanghyeon, IronMonkey lead
- Benjamin Smedberg, Mozilla
- Edwin Smith, Adobe, module co-owner, VMs
- Erik Tierney, Adobe
- Rob Winchell, Adobe
If anyone knows the obituary belonging to Project Tamarind, please do share… it seems to have been a massive Adobe effort that apparently ended up in a fruitless archive of The Mozilla Foundation.
Anyways, you can check out the archived project home page here…
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarin_%28JavaScript_engine%29
Mozilla Foundation had chosen SpiderMonkey in favour to Tamarin.
Thanks for the heads up… I was actually already preparing a note about SpiderMonkey and will certainly have an added look at that…
Jeff Dyer as of January 2001 was a member of ActionScript Language Design Team, which means that “they are responsible for the definition of the language and the design of future versions of the language”
http://blogs.adobe.com/avikchaudhuri/2011/01/20/a-round-of-introductions/
Great… thanks for the heads up… too bad it doesn’t change the fact that the project is long dead…
Tamarin is still alive and well in the Tamarin-Redux branch (I think that’s where it currently resides). This is an actual open source engine that Flash is built on. A part of it – nano-jit – is actually used in Mozilla’s core. Tamarin didn’t get the update they were hoping for by the OSS community, but it is still actively worked on, at least by Adobe. 🙂
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Tamarin/Tamarin_Build_Documentation
http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-redux/