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

[jmh530]

On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 19:03:50 UTC, James Lu wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Python succeeded because data scientists love it and it's easy 
> to
> learn. Perhaps D could go a similar route, by interfacing with
> Pandas dataframes and NumPy arrays.

It is already possible to interface between D and Python [1]. 
Further, mir has a buffer protocol implementation [2]. It would 
make for a good blog post to provide an example of how to use 
these two together.

[1] https://pyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
[2] 
http://mir-algorithm.libmir.org/mir_ndslice_connect_cpython.html