Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

[Jonathan Marler]

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...

They would take another language actually.  Before .NET they used 
Java, but it looks like they were sued by Sun because they didn't 
implement it strictly to the standard, so they decided to create 
their own rather than being subject to Sun.

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Microsoft-create-C-Wasnt-Java-good-enough-in-the-1990s