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> but it's been almost 10 years since it was announced and there's still no viable alternative to javascript to come out of it
Are you aware if AssemblyScript?
https://www.assemblyscript.org/
But arguably, the main purpose of WebAssembly is to use existing languages on the web, not necessarily invent new ones or to replace Javascript.
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The only mainstream language I'm aware of which supports high / arbitrary precision decimal numbers as a language feature is C#. Java, Python and Ruby have them as libraries included with the standard distribution, but to my knowledge they don't have any capabilities you couldn't implement yourself in a library.
Regardless, there is an active proposal to add a 128-bit decimal type to JS: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decimal
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