Why didn't Micro Soft take D as their new language?

[Jason]

On Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 21:32:49 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 20:46:36 UTC, Vinod K Chandran wrote:
>> Why didn't Micro Soft take D as their new language? If they 
>> wanted a better C, D would have been better than Rust.
>
> Because Microsoft copies technologies and makes an in house 
> version of it. Microsoft did it with Java and called it J++. I 
> expect that Microsoft will come with a Rust clone soon, we know 
> that they have already started working on that.
>
> Why didn't they clone D? Maybe it was too close to C++ and C#, 
> the extra work wasn't worth it. Maybe D was too fringe for 
> Microsoft to care.

It seems every company would rather create a new language instead 
of adopting one. That's one reason why D will never be "chosen" 
by an organization. Instead, once the major contributors either 
retire or lose interest, D will finally die instead of linger in 
its current comatose state.

RIP