Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 18 July 2019 at 23:00:03 UTC, bauss wrote:
> Microsoft has published article about needing a safer system 
> programming language.
>
> https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-systems-programming-language/
>
> Could D (Most likely as betterC) have fit into that domain OR 
> is it not yet safe?

Let's not go crazy over one post by a couple of guys that work in 
some division of Microsoft. They like Rust for a small sliver of 
programming tasks, but that doesn't mean anything one way or the 
other for D, and it doesn't mean MS is converting everything to 
Rust.