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I woke in crypto and we use bignumber.js. even so, developers default to just using Number and built in math. Having Decimal be native would make it a lot easie

by Osiris 5y ago

I woke in crypto and we use bignumber.js. even so, developers default to just using Number and built in math. Having Decimal be native would make it a lot easier to be consistent in the code.

eyelidlessness 5y ago
Oh for sure! I definitely found myself being a lone voice when I saw precision-dependent arithmetic being done with native floats and asking to use a decimal library. I was mostly coming at the question as “I wonder how much API overlap there is for people who already adopted libraries”.