good reasons not to use D?

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On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 23:07:46 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 20:55:33 UTC, David Nadlinger 
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 18:23:43 UTC, rumbu wrote:
>>> My opinion is that a decimal data type must be builtin in any 
>>> modern language, not implemented as a library.
>>
>> "must be builtin in any modern language" – which modern 
>> languages actually have decimals as a built-in type, and what 
>> is your rationale against having them as a solid library 
>> implementation? It seems like it would only be interesting for 
>> a very fringe sector of users (finance, and only the part of 
>> it that actually deals with accounting).
>>
>>  — David
> GNU C - 3 built-in decimal data types - 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Decimal-Float.html

This is a vendor-specific extension and likely exposed by GDC 
already.