About Us
Willow started as a minimalistic reimagining of Earthstar. Over time, we did a lot more reimagining, and a lot less minimalism.
The path / author / timestamp model at the heart of Willow was designed by our dear departed friend Cinnamon, without whom there would be no Willow. We miss you.
Willow was designed by Aljoscha Meyer and Sam Gwilym, who have been working together since 2022. Their first collaboration was a proof-of-concept implementation of range based set reconciliation. But they soon realised there was no-one around to say ‘no’, and have used Willow as the pretext for spinning out a macro processor, a sink / stream abstraction for Rust, and a new secure hash function.
Aljoscha is a computer scientist. He lives in Berlin.
Sam is a programmer and illustrator. She lives in The Hague.