Thank you for your contributions to the Haskell community. Your work has done a lot, especially for working Haskell programmers like myself and my coworkers. I'm also grateful that you're willing to continue moving the ball forward with unordered-containers and ekg.

You didn't mention it explicitly, but what about maintainership of Cassava? I have a soft-spot for that library which I've explained in this Github issue[1] and I'd like the library to get the love & attention I think it deserves.

Hoping you'll reconsider your appraisal of Haskell in the future, but if you're not having fun, no reason to suffer.

Cheers,

[1]: https://github.com/tibbe/cassava/issues/101

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:

Friends,

I'm taking a step back from day-to-day library work.

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.

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.

I've decided to take a step back from the core maintenance work on cabal, network, containers, and a few others* starting now. I've already found replacement maintainers for these.

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. :)

-- Johan Tibell

* For now I will still hack on unordered-containers and ekg, as there are some things I'd like to experiment with there.

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