The DIID series (Do It In D)

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Jan 25 01:15:11 UTC 2022


On 1/24/2022 4:34 PM, Elronnd wrote:
> On Monday, 24 January 2022 at 23:33:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> The phrase "How bad really is the D ecosystem?" only asks a question, but 
>> people tend to interpret such sentences as "D's ecosystem is really bad". What 
>> works better is:
>>
>> "How good really is the D ecosystem?"
> 
> Your suggested phrasing sounds overly trite to me.  I would maybe go for 'Is the 
> D ecosystem really that bad?'

Again, never write "Is the D ecosystem really that bad?" unless one wants to 
give the impression that the D ecosystem is bad. Because all the dear reader 
actually sees is:

     D ecosystem bad




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