Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption
rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jun 5 23:38:37 PDT 2016
On 06/06/2016 6:29 PM, 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
C/C++: not really
Java: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/format/numberintro.html
Go: Two proposals as of last year
https://forum.golangbridge.org/t/what-is-the-proper-golang-equivalent-to-decimal-when-dealing-with-money/413/8
Rust: nope
PHP: Has stuff, but we REALLY don't want to go around copying them
So where is it used? PHP, Java and C# the most. What are the languages
used in making e-commerce stuff? Them.
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