Leaving Microsoft

FYI, Simon Marlow is incredibly big in the Haskell community and is the leading expert in Multi core parallelism via STMs in Haskell. Some of the work he has done for the GHC compiler is frankly fantastic.<p>This is incredibly big news in the Haskell world. The FP community is starting to break boundaries with the industry in the last 5 years with Clojure (and Scala's functional support).<p>Currently, FB seems to use haskell only for basic lexing and parsing[1]. It would be tremendous to see them using it at FB scale. I think there's going to be gain for both parties - For FB, the publicity and hacker outreach, and Haskell - industrial reliability.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry" rel="nofollow">http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry</a>

It should be made clear in the title that Haskell isn't leaving MS, rather it is one of the lead developers of GHC, Simon Marlow.

Wow, talk about a shock. I hope that this is good news for functional programming and the programming language community, rather than just good news for Facebook.

Does this mean that Facebook is using Haskell more these days?

This may be either disastrous or magnificent. I think it may end up being the latter.

This email was sent yesterday, how come it's in Courier New?

GHC? Great Haskell Collider?

i'm assuming this guy has done real world work before? the idea of a compiler/language lead programmer effectively having lived in academia is terrifying on many levels.<p>best of luck to him at any rate. haskell and ghc are a cool language and compiler combo, one i have enjoyed for recreational programming time and time again.