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Re:Leaving Microsoft by eta_carinae on Thursday November 22, 2012 @11:59AM (#4819331)
> This is incredibly big news in the Haskell world.

I'm puzzled why you think this is good news for Haskell. The lead developer and architect of GHC and authority in parallel Haskell is announcing that he's taking a position that won't allow him to spend much time working on GHC, and he might even stop using Haskell completely.

It's great news for Simon but terrible news for Haskell.

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Re:Leaving Microsoft by wglb on Thursday November 22, 2012 @02:23PM (#4819739)
Unclear whether he meant big in the sense of good.

However, if it gets major traction at someplace like FB, could be quite good for the language. cf. 37signals and Rails.

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Re:Leaving Microsoft by gizmo686 on Thursday November 22, 2012 @12:03PM (#4819343)
Big /= Good
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Re:Leaving Microsoft by tibbe on Friday November 23, 2012 @02:04AM (#4821219)
According to Bryan O'Sullivan (bos) he will use Haskell at Facebook.

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/13m8eu/haskell_leav...

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