Thank you Simon for all the hard work on GHC over the years and for the various opportunities I've had to work with you personally. The change sounds exciting and I wish you all the best. With you there and Bryan, hopefully Facebook can become a Haskell shop :). Also, perhaps the change will mean you'll be visiting San Francisco on a regular basis (or at least for FB bootcamp?), so please shout out to me when you do. I'd love to catch up for a beer as I know a few other Haskell hackers in the area would.
Cheers, David On 22 November 2012 03:26, Simon Marlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Today I'm announcing that I'm leaving Microsoft Research. > > My plan is to take a break to finish the book on Parallel and > Concurrent Haskell for O'Reilly, before taking up a position at > Facebook in the UK in March 2013. > > This is undoubtedly a big change, both for me and for the Haskell > community. I'll be stepping back from full-time GHC development and > research and heading into industry, hopefully to use Haskell. It's an > incredibly exciting opportunity for me, and one that I hope will > ultimately be a good thing for Haskell too. > > What does this mean for GHC? Obviously I'll have much less time to > work on GHC, but I do hope to find time to fix a few bugs and keep > things working smoothly. Simon Peyton Jones will still be leading the > project, and we'll still have support from Ian Lynagh, and of course > the community of regular contributors. Things are in a reasonably > stable state - there haven't been any major architectural changes in > the RTS lately, and while we have just completed the switchover to the > new code generator, I've been working over the past few weeks to > squeeze out all the bugs I can find, and I'll continue to do that over > the coming months up to the 7.8.1 release. > > In due course I hope that GHC can attract more of you talented hackers > to climb the learning curve and start working on the internals, in > particular the runtime and code generators, and I'll do my best to > help that happen. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
