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This morning, out of nowhere, I decided enough is enough. Python existed for over 30 years, so the following issue just shouldn't exist anymore:

>>> 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3
False

So I after people tried to convince me of julia for many years because it supposedly handles numbers much better, I finally tried it.

julia> 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3
false

Okay then.

@maltimore the stupidity of modern languages of continuing to insist in making numbers be weird instead of actually working as numbers is bonkers, ridiculous and annoys me to no end. Computers and languages should help people do stuff and numbers working properly should be a basic thing that should work. The day I create my language numbers will be numbers and not this.

Maltimore

@vascorsd
learn julia, they said. it handles numbers better, they said.