Person/Erik Meijer

• Erik Meijer

  • About

    • Computer scientist and programming language designer
    • Known for work on VB, C#, LINQ, and Hack

  • Notable Quotes

    • "If we are the last generation of developers to write code by hand, let's have fun doing it."
    • "Let's not waste our most precious resource — time — on things a machine can do. Time can't be stored or created."

  • Work

    • Worked on Meta-built codegen/fix models
    • Team's models were outclassed by ChatGPT
    • Shocked that ChatGPT could write Hack despite the language's limited external footprint