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It's with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of long-time member of the Clojure community, Steve Gilardi. Steve passed away Friday, November 29th, 2024 due to complications from an emergency surgery. A quiet person by nature, Steve has been in the background of the Clojure community since the very beginning. He created still-used open-source libraries (slingshot, clojure.java.jdbc) and contributed to Clojure itself. Outside of Clojure he worked on satellites, adopted and improved early version of now-de-facto-standard products like ElasticSearch, and was a mentor to many developers in the art of contemplation and problem solving. He loved movies, crosswords, and trivia; was a great friend and will truly be missed. If you would like to send your regards to his family, feel free to DM me.
Steve was a good friend. He, Darin, and I had a lot of good times watching movies (remotely) together long after I left Barracuda. While I was working there with him, he was a great co-worker and an incredible engineer. Soft spoken but had tons of deep knowledge and experience he'd happily offer. I'll miss him a lot.
Steve is immortalized in a Clojure "gotcha" known as the Gilardi Scenario, perhaps best explained by this post by Phil Hagelberg https://technomancy.us/143
Sorry for your loss ❤️
damn, that's so sad. he and i exchanged some messages about slingshot last year, he was gracious and kind and quite helpful. i'm very sorry to hear this.
Just saw this thread, very sorry to hear this. I believe Steve was one of or the main contributors of the ns macro
Also just saw this, very sorry to hear this. My condolences to his family.