In this episode, we’re joined by Michael Snoyman, author of Yesod, Conduit, Stackage and many other popular Haskell libraries. We discuss newcomer friendliness, being a Rustacean vs a Haskellasaur, how STM is Haskell’s best feature and how laziness can be a vice.
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I respect his contributions to Haskell and the discussion is insightful, but I don’t feel comfortable hosting people who downplay the genocide in Gaza in our community.
Source: tweets, e.g.
- https://nitter.net/snoyberg/status/1954614803319693479
- https://nitter.net/snoyberg/status/1936636013415117049
- https://nitter.net/snoyberg/status/1936482936469274811
- https://nitter.net/snoyberg/status/1933992862611324995
Edit: To be clear, this is an appeal to the Haskell Foundation to retract this episode until Michael Snoyman publicly denounces the genocide in Gaza. I’m willing to “pass over in silence” many questionable opinions, but not genocide denial.
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On reflection, I’ve deleted my initial response as off-topic. I suggest @jaror does likewise.
In general, there’s a huge software industry in Israel. Likely there’s a small degree of separation to those feeling raw about the conflict. Best to pass over in silence.
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These posts are a shameful testament to the extremism and dehumanisation that have been normalised these past years.
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I will reach out to the relevant parties and see what an appropriate path forward might be.
There is no single ‘editor’ of the Haskell Interlude, like almost everything in the Haskell community, it is governed by a group (not sure if they call themselves a ‘committee’ in this particular case). This has its benefits and drawbacks, as you all know, particularly when it comes to being decisive on contentious issues. It would be specious for me to promise anything more concrete at this time.
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First and main - Michael Snoyman posts shows that Snoyman joked about news from Gaza.
But he … didn’t propose to do a genocide to Palestinians or to kill most Palestinians (in Gaza or in whole).
So, please don’t blame him for that!
We (the podcast team) take this concern seriously. The posts referenced are dehumanizing, making light of non-combatants in a terrible situation and we do not condone them.
The episode steers clear of this topic. It focuses on Snoyman’s technical contributions to the Haskell ecosystem, including five of the top ten most downloaded packages on Hackage.
We will discuss this at our next podcast meeting and decide how to proceed. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
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