Microsoft working on new systems language

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On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 22:55:24 UTC, bioinfornatics 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 December 2013 at 11:13:55 UTC, Barry L. wrote:
>> Hello everyone, first post...
>>
>> Just saw this:  
>> http://joeduffyblog.com/2013/12/27/csharp-for-systems-programming/
>>
>> D (and Rust) get a mention with this quote:  "There are other 
>> candidates early in their lives, too, most notably Rust and D. 
>> But hey, my team works at Microsoft, where there is ample C# 
>> talent and community just an arm’s length away."
>
> They are any conclusion about this ?
> they are 10 page and most part talk about D gc…

Thank you.

Microsoft might put together a great language for system 
programming but if it is going to be used outside the Microsoft 
world, then LLVM will be essential.

GCC has previously been used by processor vendors in order to 
support languages like C/C++. LLVM is now gradually taking over 
that part and I expect LLVM to become the compiler framework of 
choice. The same is really valid for the D language, without LLVM 
the D language will not live on.

I don't really know the plan from Microsoft here but I doubt that 
they will release the source and support LLVM so I guess the wide 
acceptance of this new language will be limited to Microsoft 
development only. Then we might have people who will make an LLVM 
implementation of M# by themselves, we'll see