Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

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On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 05:38:25 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> Same thing goes with a fixed point type. People keep 
> complaining about it, but honestly if I were in the finance 
> sector I'd implement the type myself in a couple o' days and 
> put it up on code.dlang.org or something. It's not *that* hard.

i've seen some implementations already (and, of course, made my 
own too). it is not that hard, and it working nice. so yes, i'm 
all for that. and literals of various custom types can be 
implemented with CTFE magic, like `octal!`, for example.