The problem is that fixed decimal types are far less standard in many programming languages. One thing I really loved about Groovy is that BigDecimal is the sta

The problem is that fixed decimal types are far less standard in many programming languages. One thing I really loved about Groovy is that BigDecimal is the standard type for decimal numbers. Type `1.5` and you will have a BigDecimal rather than a float in your hands. Not very suitable for complex scientific calculations of course, but perfect for web development which is more likely to deal with money than scientific calculations.