Why didn't Micro Soft take D as their new language?

[Vinod K Chandran]

On Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 21:32:49 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
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> Because Microsoft copies technologies and makes an in house 
> version of it. Microsoft did it with Java and called it J++. I 
> expect that Microsoft will come with a Rust clone soon, we know 
> that they have already started working on that.
>
> Why didn't they clone D? Maybe it was too close to C++ and C#, 
> the extra work wasn't worth it. Maybe D was too fringe for 
> Microsoft to care.

This is true.