He still commits code and responds to Github issues occasionally, and
I think it's safe to assume that he's still participating in the
internal discussions about the design. But most decisions about
language changes these days are made by Russ Cox, Ian Lance Taylor, and
Robert Griesemer. At least, that's the impression I'm getting.
> Rob: Although it's far from certain, after over a decade of work it looks like a design for parametric polymorphism, what is colloquially but misleadingly called generics, is coming in the next year or two. It was a very hard problem to find a design that works within the existing language and feels as if it belongs, but Ian Taylor invested a phenomenal amount of energy into the problem and it looks like the answer is now in reach.
Sounds like he took a welcomed step back. Hopefully the new leaders can deliver.
Ian Lance Taylor has been involved in the language for a long time, since 2008. Here he is talking about the built-in function append and why it shouldn't really exist in 2017
