Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

[Mike Franklin]

On Thursday, 18 July 2019 at 23:49:00 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:

> I think D could meet Microsoft's needs, but only if they forked 
> it and made some fundamental changes to remove the technical 
> debt, remove some of the "weird sh**" 
> (https://youtu.be/TkNep5zHWNw?t=1378), and a number of other 
> things we all could list to make using D a more professional 
> experience.

... and D could complete better with Rust if it had 
@safe-by-default and statically-check ownership/borrowing 
mechanism as Walter recently proposed.

I think there is something that Microsoft is overlooking with D.  
In the last 2 paragraphs of the blog post they say that 
programmers should be using managed languages like C#|F# whenever 
possible, but use Rust when the prior don't scale.

D is unique from Rust and C# in that is scales both up and down.  
So, Microsoft is missing an opportunity to have one language for 
all use cases.  But I still think D has to do something about the 
technical debt and other "weird sh**" to make it viable.

Mike