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

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 22:22:16 UTC, Per Nordlöw 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.
>
> Does Microsofts new language have a name?

Microsoft Research is looking at

Checked C, https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc

Verona, https://github.com/microsoft/verona

Both developed as open source projects and far from being used in 
any production over on mother Microsoft.

Meanwhile mother Microsoft is shipping plain standard Rust on 
production via VS Code (ripgrep), Azure IoT (C# with Rust for low 
level stuff), WinRT/UWP bindings and considering support for 
Azure Sphere.