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>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.

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Marlow 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).

>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?

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