I look forward to seeing yah around at events, as always!<span></span><br><br>On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, Johan Tibell <<a href="mailto:johan.tibell@gmail.com">johan.tibell@gmail.com</a>> 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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