<div dir="ltr">Thank you for your contributions to the Haskell community. Your work has done a lot, especially for working Haskell programmers like myself and my coworkers. I'm also grateful that you're willing to continue moving the ball forward with unordered-containers and ekg.<div><br></div><div>You didn't mention it explicitly, but what about maintainership of Cassava? I have a soft-spot for that library which I've explained in this Github issue[1] and I'd like the library to get the love & attention I think it deserves.</div><div><br></div><div>Hoping you'll reconsider your appraisal of Haskell in the future, but if you're not having fun, no reason to suffer.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/tibbe/cassava/issues/101">https://github.com/tibbe/cassava/issues/101</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Johan Tibell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johan.tibell@gmail.com" target="_blank">johan.tibell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Friends,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I'm taking a step back from day-to-day library work.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">There are two main reasons I use Haskell: on one hand I find writing Haskell educational and fun. On the other I hope to make it a viable alternative to existing mainstream languages. With recent changes to our core libraries, and the general direction these are moving in, I believe we're moving away from becoming a viable alternative to those mainstream languages.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">This has some practical implications for how I spend my Haskell hacking time. Much of what I do is maintaining and working on libraries that are needed for real world usage, but that aren't that interesting to work on. I've lost the motivation to work on these.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I've decided to take a step back from <span style="font-size:12.8px">the core maintenance work on </span>cabal, network, containers, and a few others* starting now. I've already found replacement maintainers for these.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I still plan to hack on random side projects, including GHC, and to continue coming to Haskell events and conference, just with a shorter bug backlog to worry about. :)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-- Johan Tibell</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">* For now I will still hack on unordered-containers and ekg, as there are some things I'd like to experiment with there.</div></div>
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