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

[James Lu]

On Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 21:42:12 UTC, Jason wrote:
> It seems every company would rather create a new language 
> instead of adopting one. That's one reason why D will never be 
> "chosen" by an organization. Instead, once the major 
> contributors either retire or lose interest, D will finally die 
> instead of linger in its current comatose state.

Python was created by a single person and maintained by a 
community.
It has been adopted by Anaconda Inc, with contributions from teams
at Google (Tensorflow) and Facebook. (Pyre)

Python succeeded because data scientists love it and it's easy to
learn. Perhaps D could go a similar route, by interfacing with
Pandas dataframes and NumPy arrays.