Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

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On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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.

When I read this post one of the things that crossed my mind was 
how Andrei could afford to do this, but personal economic issues 
tend to be sensitive matters so I didn't presume to ask. It seems 
that someone else asked it (very directly) on reddit, and Andrei 
replied. His answer is basically that he's taking a large pay cut 
to do this:

     
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3ioy9b/andrei_alexandrescu_c_guru_leaves_facebook_to/cuip1pd

Given the implicit donation (the financial opportunity cost) that 
Andrei is making to D, I just wanted to say: thank you.