Decimal string to floating point conversion with correct half-to-even rounding

[Jacob Carlborg]

On Sunday, 5 July 2020 at 14:29:22 UTC, IGotD- wrote:

> It's a resource question again. I'm all for that for example D 
> should have a native alternative to curl including SSL/TLS 
> support. If someone is willing to invest the man hours into 
> such project, I'm all for it. Nim went that way having partial 
> native http support so it isn't impossible.

I agree, that would be really nice. Unfortunately it's quite 
tricky if you want to integrate with the platform provided TLS 
implementation [1]. Unless you're suggesting to create a crypto 
library from scratch, which is a whole different beast, and 
probably a bad idea [2].

[1] 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/prsrbzoanxwytrtpyqgv@forum.dlang.org
[2] 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/hsmjcgxzujgwsiegikos@forum.dlang.org

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/Jacob Carlborg