Interesting comments on the GHC #Haskell proposal process. I don't think language proposals are like academic papers as the sense of authorship is very different. A paper is not going to be just the way I’d write it, and that’s totally fine! The author chose to emphasize different things. But a language change ends up being owned (maintained) by a larger group.

https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/issues/706