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Sorry to hear about the lay-off. I can't stress enough how influential Eric Lippert was on my early career. His work on C# and .NET, but more importantly his op

Sorry to hear about the lay-off. I can't stress enough how influential Eric Lippert was on my early career. His work on C# and .NET, but more importantly his openness and engagement with the community played a big part in me continuing on the Microsoft stack. Just jumping into any random month[1] in his blog archive from my formative years is incredible nostalgia for me. It's not the kind of high-concept "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors" content that will make the front page of HN, but was a great pipeline of information for a junior .NET developer hungry to learn. [1] https://ericlippert.com/2009/08/ https://ericlippert.com/2009/08/

ericlippert 4y ago
Thank you, that's kind of you to say.
- techterrier 4y ago
  ditto, thanks Eric!
- mattchamb 4y ago
  I also want to say thanks for exactly the same reasons expressed above. I learnt a lot from your writing when I was a junior developer just starting out in 2010. You shared a lot of insights that made the internals of the systems we build upon much more accessible to me and helped shape my relationship with all programming languages I have used since then.
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- wofo 4y ago
  Just wanted to say thanks too. Back when I was at the university, your blog helped me discover programming languages are something you can actually design. I even ended up contributing to the Rust compiler, which was an incredible learning experience. Thanks for the inspiration!
- marcusf 4y ago
  Eric, want to echo what folks are saying here. I stumbled on your blog in high school (ca 2003?) and you (and Raymond Chen) fueled so much of my passion for compilers and API design respectively, which dictated both my school choice and at least some career choices later. You were highly influential from afar :)
- com2kid 4y ago
  Your blog was a huge influence on me, and it, along with The Old New Thing, led to me working at Microsoft for almost a decade. I learned more about software engineering and programming from your blog than from any set of college classes or textbooks, and what you taught directly impacted so many project I've worked on. Thank you so much, and I hope that someday in the future you will return to blogging!
- ericlippert 4y ago
  And thanks to all the repliers below for their kind words. My goal was always to share knowledge and enthusiasm and it is genuinely touching to know that I succeeded.
nnoitra 4y ago
smcl 4y ago
Not much I can add here, I think musk_micropenis really hit the nail on the head
rjbwork 4y ago
100% agree. Still primarily working in .NET (now core! oh wait, now just .NET again, lol) some 11 years on. Thanks Eric!
UglyToad 4y ago
Strongly agree, I've not read much of his blog but every time I do read an article the quality and personality stand out. Hoping he gets the time to recover and decompress.

ericlippert 4y ago

Thank you, that's kind of you to say.

techterrier 4y ago
ditto, thanks Eric!
mattchamb 4y ago
I also want to say thanks for exactly the same reasons expressed above. I learnt a lot from your writing when I was a junior developer just starting out in 2010. You shared a lot of insights that made the internals of the systems we build upon much more accessible to me and helped shape my relationship with all programming languages I have used since then.
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wofo 4y ago
Just wanted to say thanks too. Back when I was at the university, your blog helped me discover programming languages are something you can actually design. I even ended up contributing to the Rust compiler, which was an incredible learning experience. Thanks for the inspiration!
marcusf 4y ago
Eric, want to echo what folks are saying here. I stumbled on your blog in high school (ca 2003?) and you (and Raymond Chen) fueled so much of my passion for compilers and API design respectively, which dictated both my school choice and at least some career choices later. You were highly influential from afar :)
com2kid 4y ago
Your blog was a huge influence on me, and it, along with The Old New Thing, led to me working at Microsoft for almost a decade. I learned more about software engineering and programming from your blog than from any set of college classes or textbooks, and what you taught directly impacted so many project I've worked on. Thank you so much, and I hope that someday in the future you will return to blogging!
ericlippert 4y ago
And thanks to all the repliers below for their kind words. My goal was always to share knowledge and enthusiasm and it is genuinely touching to know that I succeeded.

nnoitra 4y ago

smcl 4y ago

Not much I can add here, I think musk_micropenis really hit the nail on the head

rjbwork 4y ago

100% agree. Still primarily working in .NET (now core! oh wait, now just .NET again, lol) some 11 years on. Thanks Eric!

UglyToad 4y ago

Strongly agree, I've not read much of his blog but every time I do read an article the quality and personality stand out. Hoping he gets the time to recover and decompress.