Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 08:29 +0200, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-
d wrote:
> On 6/6/16 6:17 AM, Andre Pany wrote:
> > to be usable for companies which want to create economic software,
> > in my opinion D lacks std.decimal.
> 
> Do C, C++, Java, Go, or Rust have a standard decimal type? -- Andrei

No, but then why is this a factor?

Java has a BigDecimal but it isn't quite what you think it might be.

Many (financial) organizations create their own.  They tend to treat
them as asset rather than infrastructure. I know of two C++ ones in
this category.

If having a decimal feature in the standard library, or at least easily
available as a third-party library, would aide D traction, then maybe
it should go on the "let's get this done now" agenda?

-- 
Russel.
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