Microsoft chose Go instead of C# or Rust to rewrite TypeScript

[Ali Çehreli]

On 9/8/25 9:51 AM, Serg Gini wrote:

 > So I don't think they were considering D at all. Most probably they had
 > some short-list of the language that their team knows and that are
 > suitable for the task.

In my experience, such project "decisions" are rationalizations after 
the fact. Like in most human decisions, they know what they want and 
although they know what direction they will eventually go, they have to 
act unbiased and fool even themselves and secretly "watch" how their 
choice wins in the end.

Ali