Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 19 July 2019 at 22:00:41 UTC, bachmeier 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.

They might not rewrite everything, but they already:

- Have Azure IoT Edge using a mix of Rust and C#

- Are using a rigrep (grep implementation in Rust) as part  of 
VSCode

- Are helping porting Firefox to HoloLens and were hiring Rust 
devs for that purpose

- Created the Actix web framework, one of the best Rust web 
frameworks and are using it as part of Azure infrastructure.

On a sidenote, the new ChromeOS sandbox demoed at Google IO is 
written in a mix of Rust and Go.