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

[James Lu]

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.

After copying J++ and being sued, they made C#.