This makes me very sad. @roberth has been a fantastic collaborator all our years working on Nix together.
I want to share a bit of a personal anecdote on this: In the earlier days, especially, when Eelco and Théophane were more skeptical about whether my non-new-feature-oriented work was actually bringing value to the project, Robert’s support was not only an integral step in making my work possible, but strong emotional support that I wasn’t crazy for attempting this stuff in the first place. Without Robert, I would have burned out along time ago. Thank you so much Robert, for raising my spirits over engaging with open source at a time I needed it most.
It was also due to Robert’s and Valentin’s efforts that I was able to join the Nix team at all, for which I am eternally very grateful.
(I am not yet going to respond to the other threads. Nobody take my responding here as an invitation to engage me here on those topics instead of the actual topic of this thread.)