Farewell (of sorts)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, October 4, 2018 7:15:23 AM MDT Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-
d wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> First of all, I know I've had a shorter than usual fuse of late. I'd
> like to apologize to everyone about this. It is the culmination of quite
> a few things increasing the load I'm under.
>
> One of those things is this: October 14th will be my last day working
> for Weka.IO. Accordingly, my involvement in D will be considerably
> reduced after that date, as working with D will no longer be my day job.
>
> A few of you knew that I was looking for a new job, but I postponed
> officially announcing this, as I wanted to see who will be taking over
> maintenance of Mecca. On that front, I have some good news and some bad
> news.
>
> The bad news is that the person taking over will not have Mecca as his
> sole responsibility. I am hoping he'll be able to do enough.
>
> The good news is that they put on this task my top pick for it. His name
> is Eyal Lotem, and is a great developer. Some of you have met him as he
> attended DConf three years ago.
>
> I will probably keep half an eye on the forum, and I might also be
> around on the Slack channels. My email address will change as a result.
> Feel free to find me at firstname at lastname.biz, after applying the
> relevant substitutions. I think it's a better captcha than running D
> code :-)

Well, best of luck in your new job, and thank you for your thoughts and
contributions. I know that you often haven't been happy with how D does
things, but you've had an impact, and you will be missed. You can of course
continue to contribute in your free time, but given your views on D, that
obviously doesn't seem likely. Hopefully, some form of your DIP gets
accepted though given that D does seem a bit crippled with regards to some
use cases and moves at the moment. Regardless, at minimum, in your time with
Weka, you've made many of us around here think.

- Jonathan M Davis