On: Java’s floating-point hurts everyone everywhere (1...

[xxs]

Well (tens) thousands doubles vs BigDecimals (think of marketing data) and any operations over them is a massive difference.

The premature optimization is beyond uncalled for. Learning to use floating point type is something that most developers should do. No need for weasel words, either (annoying, counterintuitive).

[bradleyjg → xxs]

I think annoying and counterintuitive are exactly the right words for numeric types that don’t obey the associative property over addition.