Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Radek]

On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 06:29:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 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

Hello Andrei, there's a nice arbitrary precision arithmetic 
library for Java: http://apfloat.org/apfloat_java - we used it 
some time ago because we had to mirror Oracle's number precision. 
It also provides all important arithmetic, trigonometric and 
other functions we need. There's C++ version too: 
http://apfloat.org/apfloat/2.41 - but I don't know if it has all 
the features Java version has, it was last updated at 2006.

I think it would be very very nice to have it ported to D...

Sorry for bothering you, I'm new to D language, I have bought a 
book and I'm learning now, but the project I think I will write 
in D needs to mirror Oracle's number or Postgresql's numeric 
precision too... Yes, there will be minimal need of that 
precision in reality and I can live with decimal[32|64|128] for 
now.

Best regards, Radek