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

[FunkyD]

On Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 21:42:12 UTC, Jason wrote:
> 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

This is what happens when the leadership thinks meandering is the 
way to go.