I do think DEC64 has merit: Most of the time, I'd prefer to be able to reason about how non-integers are handled; and I just can't reason about traditional floa

I do think DEC64 has merit: Most of the time, I'd prefer to be able to reason about how non-integers are handled; and I just can't reason about traditional floating point. Yes, Doug does bloviate quite a bit. (And when I asked him if there was a way to make callbacks in Node.js / Javascript simpler, he mocked me. A few years later, "await" was added to the language, which generally cleans up callback chains.)