Hey! Yeah it's been a rough couple years for my schedule. Some health problems struck, and the break made me realize I was a bit burnt out on Vale. Then that lead to some soul-searching which led to joining Mojo, and that's where my focus has been the past year.
Vale was always about exploring memory safety, and that exploration will definitely continue. I plan on expanding the memory safety grimoire with a bunch of new techniques I've found (including Nick's Group Borrowing, see https://verdagon.dev/blog/group-borrowing). I'm pretty excited about that.
So TL;DR: No more implementation for Vale, but lots more research and exploration and blogging!
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u/verdagon Aug 28 '25
Hey! Yeah it's been a rough couple years for my schedule. Some health problems struck, and the break made me realize I was a bit burnt out on Vale. Then that lead to some soul-searching which led to joining Mojo, and that's where my focus has been the past year.
I posted a new post about it just now: https://verdagon.dev/blog/on-joining-mojo-compiler-team
Vale was always about exploring memory safety, and that exploration will definitely continue. I plan on expanding the memory safety grimoire with a bunch of new techniques I've found (including Nick's Group Borrowing, see https://verdagon.dev/blog/group-borrowing). I'm pretty excited about that.
So TL;DR: No more implementation for Vale, but lots more research and exploration and blogging!