Leaving Microsoft

[David Terei]

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 <marlowsd at gmail.com> 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
>
>
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