I hate writing yet another RIP post, but the other day, I learned on Bluesky that Tomas Kalibera had passed away. I don’t really know Tomas well, and have never met him in person, but I just to write down a couple of things while I remember them.
My first interaction with Tomas was a small pull request to my testit package in 2016: yihui/testit#3. He found that testit did not work with the byte-code compiler, and …