Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

user1234 user1234 at 12.de
Sat Jul 20 09:33:21 UTC 2019


On Saturday, 20 July 2019 at 08:54:36 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 July 2019 at 23:00:03 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> Microsoft has published article about needing a safer system 
>> programming language.
>>
>> https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-systems-programming-language/
>>
>> Could D (Most likely as betterC) have fit into that domain OR 
>> is it not yet safe?
>
> Microsoft Research has teams working on advancing the state of 
> the art of verifiable programming... They probably has the most 
> knowledgable group of people in this area, so I they could move 
> beyond Rust (with ease) if it was made a company policy, but it 
> might not pay off in terms of profit. They will probably 
> continue to evolve the C# eco system. Makes more sense in 
> relation to their cloud offerings etc.

I agree. This is more or less the same idea that I explained in a 
previous message.


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