Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

matheus matheus at gmail.com
Fri Jul 19 13:20:00 UTC 2019


On Friday, 19 July 2019 at 12:59:40 UTC, user1234 wrote:
> On Friday, 19 July 2019 at 12:24:10 UTC, matheus wrote:
>> On Thursday, 18 July 2019 at 23:00:03 UTC, bauss wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Could D (Most likely as betterC) have fit into that domain OR 
>>> is it not yet safe?
>>
>> Question: Have anyone from Dlang PR team tried to send Ryan 
>> Levick (Principal Cloud Developer Advocate) or Sebastian 
>> Fernandez (Security Software Engineer) an e-mail to talk about 
>> D?
>>
>> I mean maybe "our" language is over their radar (Or not), but 
>> this could may increase the chances or at least give them a 
>> thought.
>>
>> I pretty sure that should be nice or maybe engage some sort a 
>> relationship in the future.
>>
>> Matheus.
>
> They'd never take a language that they don't dominate / create. 
> If something new emerge this will come from their labs / 
> experimental languages. Before .Net the situation was similar, 
> i.e they could have chosen something like Delphi but created 
> .Net in response.
>
> To the best what could happen is that they borrow D features 
> and everyone here then would get mad because of that...

I'm not saying they would jump the ship right the way or use as 
it is.

But they are changing, just take a look over Microsoft embracing 
Chromium or adding Linux support on Windows.

And since they're even mentioning Rust, I think they may be open 
to D.

Matheus.


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