Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 05:52:33 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> 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.

Well, it is a lot of work to get the base 10 IEEE 754-2008 
implementation conformant. Fortunately IBM has already done it 
under a BSD license:

http://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/index.html

So all you base-10 dudes have to do is to translate it into D.