Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 05:38:25 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 05:39:37AM +0000, ketmar via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 05:49:53 UTC, Ethan Watson wrote:
>> > Echoing the need for decimal support. I won't use it myself, 
>> > but I know it's critical for finance.
>> 
>> funny thing: those "financial sector" most of the time doesn't 
>> give anything back. adding special decimal type complicating 
>> the compiler and all backends. i myself never needed that for 
>> my whole lifetime (and this is more than two decades of 
>> programming, in various free and commercial projects).
> [...]
>
> A Decimal type isn't hard to implement as a user-defined type. 
> I don't understand the obsession with some people that 
> something must be a built-in type to be acceptable... 
> user-defined types were invented for a reason, and in D you 
> have the facilities of making user-defined types behave almost 
> like built-in types in a way no other language I know of can.
>
> 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.
>
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In my opinion passionate D developer will build the missing parts 
themselves. I also developed my own decimal library. But the 
developers starting with D and which rather want to build content 
instead of the missing parts won't. Also there is a much higher 
trust if a library is provided within phobos than provided from a 
single person in terms of long time support.

Kind regards
Andre