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by eta_carinae 4963 days ago
> 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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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.

Big /= Good
According to Bryan O'Sullivan (bos) he will use Haskell at Facebook.

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