[robertlagrant]

MSFT are keen to invest in popular development tools such as Python, Javascript, and Git. They hired Guido; they bought NPM; they bought GitHub.

I don't know what the plan is, but they haven't succeeded (outside of the corporate world, really, for C# and the functional world in F#) in making modern tooling and languages people want to use.

[skeledrew]

If you have too steep a hill making inroads into a desired community, and there's enough money, just buy the thing that brings said community together.