Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

[aliak]

On Monday, 22 July 2019 at 01:31:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/21/2019 11:46 AM, aliak wrote:
>> A bug in Nullable cause of us to swear off working on the D 
>> version - but the same person got defeated by the Rust borrow 
>> checker but that for some reason did not make him swear it off.
>
>
> I'm not surprised. I see this all the time. It's the "social 
> proof" thing at work.

One is based on instability and the other is based on an assumed 
learning curve. So I can understand actually.