On Thursday, January 04, 2018 10:27:37 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:23:57AM +0000, Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 07:47:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > [...] > > > > I'm missing Kenji... > > Me too. :-( Does anybody know what happened to him? He just sortof > dropped off the radar suddenly and I haven't been able to find out where > he went or what happened to him since ~2 years ago.
I don't know the details, but I heard that he got annoyed when Andrei closed some of his PRs that were supposed to reformat the compiler's code to match what it had been before it was automatically converted to D (since apparently, the automatic conversion mucked with some of the formatting). I gather than Keji preferred the way that the code had been formatted before, whereas Andrei thought that PRs that just changed formatting were a waste of time, but I don't know. There may have been other causes of friction involved, or something else may have happened in his personal life, but it sounded like Kenji got annoyed/frustrated over what was happening with his PRs for dmd and left. Either way, he was a strong contributor, and it's a shame that he's gone now. Plenty of other good contributors have basically fallen off the map as well, but his loss is probably more strongly felt than most given that he was able to do an insane amount of work, and he was one of the core contributors to the compiler. - Jonathan M Davis
