Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 19:14:46 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote:
> On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>> Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D 
>> language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult 
>> decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years 
>> and nine months.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Respect.
>
> Joseph

+1.

Andrei is a major reason I decided to use D in the first place, 
his presence in the C++ community was very influential. Seeing 
him personally put a large portion of his life aside to push D 
forward is very reassuring that D is not on the way out.