Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:00:41PM +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.

Hysteria has always been a common feature in the mad race for language
popularity; why would this time be different? ;-)


T

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