proposal-decimal VS vscode-wasm

Bloomberg are currently sponsoring Igalia to work on adding native Decimal number support to JavaScript.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decimal

This is an active proposal and was last discussed in the September 2023 meeting.

would it be possible, for example, to access the standard decimal library of C# or Python via Javascript, thus not having to wait for the TC39 spec / implementation? [1]

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decimal

There's a BigDecimal TC39 proposal to bring this kind of thing to the native language, but until then you have to choose between accuracy and performance.

To solve the problem while JavaScript waits on its own BigDecimal API, you can use something like bignumber.js to perform your calculations.

TC39 is now advancing Built-in decimal datatype in JavaScript.

given the popularity of javascript, it's about time we had better native tools for dealing with numbers in general, but it seems like the discussion is very slow on this front. for instance, the decimal proposal is still at stage 1 [1]. and no, BigInt does not solve that.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decimal

In the future, JavaScript will hopefully get base 10 arithmetic: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decimal

Yup, my solution is specific to wasmer runtime. Check for wai-language-server. It's compileable to wasix and then can be run using wasmer runtime. https://github.com/wasmerio/vscode-wasm

It's been this way for a little bit already (actually since 3 years ago! [1]).

It was an intentional thing though, because we want to put this extension under a common group, not something that only Wasmer owns... that's why we haven't changed it yet. But I agree that probably using WebAssembly Foundation is perhaps not the best name :)

[1]: https://github.com/wasmerio/vscode-wasm/commit/0f7f00f44aa72...