The development of Gecode has been led by Christian Schulte,[1] but has been contributed to by many other researchers and programmers, including
Denys Duchier,
Filip Konvicka,
Gabor Szokoli,
Guido Tack,
Håkan Kjellerstrand,
Mikael Lagerkvist,
Patrick Pekczynski,
Raphael Reischuk, and
Tias Guns.[2]
The first release of Gecode was in December 2005.[3] Since then, Gecode has rapidly become one of the most prominent constraint programming systems.[citation needed]
Reasons for this are that it runs fast, is extensible, free and open source under a permissive licence, and is written in a popular language. As well as being very useful in its own right, its extensibility and licensing makes it highly suitable for use on other projects.[4] Gecode has been ported to several language, for instance, Gelisp is a wrapper of Gecode for Lisp.[5]
Monadic Constraint Programming with Gecode. Pieter Wuille, Tom Schrijvers. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation pages:171-185. International workshop on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation. Lisbon, 20 September 2009.