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Well, so what? Simon Marlow, Haskell's lead compiler developer in recent years, quit, leaving arguably a much larger gap than @paulp leaving Tyepsafe since SPJ
by virtualwhys 13y ago
Well, so what? Simon Marlow, Haskell's lead compiler developer in recent years, quit, leaving arguably a much larger gap than @paulp leaving Tyepsafe since SPJ is wrapped up in leading some English education initiative.
Anyway, shit happens, gaps are filled. Languages, once established, are larger than any one developer, no matter how brilliant the individual may be.
It's worth noting that @paulp is as active as ever in Scala, working on his new collections library and contributing to Scala now from the outside -- he may have left Typesafe but has not in anyway left Scala. As he says, he has a "sickness" for language perfection, and fortunately for we Scala users, Scala is the target of his illness ;-)
- nousernamesleft 13y ago>Simon Marlow, Haskell's lead compiler developer in recent years, quit, leaving arguably a much larger gap than @paulp leaving Tyepsafe Quit what? He is still a ghc developer. He quit his job at Microsoft Research to go work at Facebook, but that doesn't seem quite comparable to quitting a job working at the official scala company on the official scala compiler.
- virtualwhys 13y agoMarlow is _full-time_ at Facebook, bye bye. There's a difference between being a ghc developer and THE ghc developer. He's more of an advisor now than a committer, look at his ghc commit history, lots of comments, few commits. Not saying he's joined the dark side like Erik Meijer, but he's also not actively _working_ on the compiler as he did before; that's for the new guy(s).
- nousernamesleft 13y ago>Marlow is _full-time_ at Facebook And? Before that he was full time at Microsoft. He was never an employee of any sort of official ghc company working on ghc full time. >Not saying he's joined the dark side like Erik Meijer What dark side and what is wrong with Erik?