Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Monday, 22 July 2019 at 16:29:16 UTC, Newbie2019 wrote:
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> I suggestion we should focus fix bugs and improve 
> support/platform/quality.
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> Keep improve IDE,  dub package, language server.
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> Finish the LDC support for IOS/Android,  (I read from forum 
> history,  people say it take a weekend work to made IOS branch 
> upgrade to latest version,  but last commit for IOS is 2017).


This is a variation of "build it and they will come" talk. I have 
thousands of software users, and they couldn't bother that I fix 
bugs, improve support and quality. What they care is about the 
perception of that software, which is a social construct.
Existing users may care, but new ones won't take a look just 
because bug X was fixed or "compiler has improved speed by 3%".