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digitalmars.D - Farewell (of sorts)

reply Shachar Shemesh <shachar weka.io> writes:
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 lastname.biz, after applying the 
relevant substitutions. I think it's a better captcha than running D 
code :-)

Shachar
Oct 04 2018
next sibling parent bauss <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:
On Thursday, 4 October 2018 at 13:15:23 UTC, Shachar Shemesh 
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 lastname.biz, 
 after applying the relevant substitutions. I think it's a 
 better captcha than running D code :-)

 Shachar


Farewell, but do stick your head around here :)
Oct 04 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent Nicholas Wilson <iamthewilsonator hotmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 4 October 2018 at 13:15:23 UTC, Shachar Shemesh 
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 lastname.biz, 
 after applying the relevant substitutions. I think it's a 
 better captcha than running D code :-)

 Shachar


Please do keep around if you can. I hope to have some good news 
regarding D processes (the wetware kind) soon.

I do hope you get to keep your job title wherever you go next, 
its the best I've ever seen :)

So long and thanks for all the laughs, Chief Court Jester

Nic
Oct 04 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent Jonathan M Davis <newsgroup.d jmdavisprog.com> writes:
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 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
Oct 10 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 10/4/2018 6:15 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

 One of those things is this: October 14th will be my last day working for 
 Weka.IO.


My best wishes for your next adventure! -Walter
Oct 10 2018
prev sibling parent =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
Good luck!

On 10/04/2018 06:15 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:


 D will no longer be my day job.


After a one year distraction with Go, I'm back to C++ myself. I've just 
finished my first reading of Scott Meyers' "Effective Modern C++" Oh 
boy! :) I'm reminded one more time that C++ is very hard to use 
correctly without reading several books like his.


 Eyal Lotem


Yay! :)

Ali
Oct 10 2018