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+# Credits
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+Mithril was originally written by Leo Horie, but it is where it is today thanks to the hard work and great ideas of many people.
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+Special thanks to:
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+- Pat Tivac, who exposed most of the public API for Mithril 1.0 and brought in test coverage
+- Isiah Meadows, who brought in linting, modernized the test suite and has been a strong voice in design discussions
+- Zoli Kahan, who replaced the original Promise implementation with one that actually worked properly
+- Alec Embke, who single-handedly wrote the JSON-P implementation
+- Barney Carroll, who suggested many great ideas and relentlessly pushed Mithril to the limit to uncover design issues prior to Mithril 1.0
+- Dominic Gannaway, who offered insanely meticulous technical insight into rendering performance
+- Boris Letocha, whose search space reduction algorithm is the basis for Mithril's virtual DOM engine
+- Joel Richard, whose monomorphic virtual DOM structure is the basis for Mithril's vnode implementation
+- Simon Friis Vindum, whose open source work was an inspiration to many design decisions for Mithril 1.0
+- Boris Kaul, for his awesome work on the benchmarking tools used to develop Mithril
+- Leon Sorokin, for writing a DOM instrumentation tool that helped improve performance in Mithril 1.0
+- Jordan Walke, whose work on React was prior art to the implementation of keys in Mithril
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+Other people who also deserve recognition:
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+- Arthur Clemens - creator of [Polythene](https://github.com/ArthurClemens/Polythene) and the [HTML-to-Mithril converter](http://arthurclemens.github.io/mithril-template-converter/index.html)
+- Stephan Hoyer - creator of [mithril-node-render](https://github.com/StephanHoyer/mithril-node-render), [mithril-query](https://github.com/StephanHoyer/mithril-query) and [mithril-source-hint](https://github.com/StephanHoyer/mithril-source-hint)
+- the countless people who have reported and fixed bugs, participated in discussions, and helped promote Mithril
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