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1. Reid :blobcat3c: (reiddragon@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Tuesday, 16-May-2023 23:02:50 JST Reid :blobcat3c:

   • matrix07012 :thotpatrol: :cunnyEmpire:

   @matrix@gameliberty.club ngl, actually disappointed most modern langs don't have fixed point numbers, they'd actually be pretty damn useful for a bunch of stuff

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   • matrix07012 :thotpatrol: :cunnyEmpire: (matrix@gameliberty.club)'s status on Tuesday, 16-May-2023 23:08:47 JST matrix07012 :thotpatrol: :cunnyEmpire:

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     @Reiddragon I'm not sure why they aren't in the standart library, but you have a lot of libraries and every modern language has a package manager

   • matrix07012 :thotpatrol: :cunnyEmpire: (matrix@gameliberty.club)'s status on Tuesday, 16-May-2023 23:28:40 JST matrix07012 :thotpatrol: :cunnyEmpire:

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     @Reiddragon I assume it's slower because there isn't hardware for it. However you are right about poor maintenance.
     For C there's libfixmath

   • Reid :blobcat3c: (reiddragon@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Tuesday, 16-May-2023 23:28:41 JST Reid :blobcat3c:

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     • matrix07012 :thotpatrol: :cunnyEmpire:

     @matrix@gameliberty.club often times those end up being slower than floats or ints, and being poorly maintained tho
     also the langs I'd find fixed point numbers most useful for would be C and Pascal on more limited hardware like GameBoy, MCUs, or old systems like DOS, don't really have package managers there

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   • Reid :blobcat3c: (reiddragon@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 17-May-2023 00:47:07 JST Reid :blobcat3c:

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     • matrix07012 :thotpatrol: :cunnyEmpire:

     @matrix@gameliberty.club well for some languages it's also the fact you can't as easily implement a basic type within the language without having it be slower, not the case for the specific cases of C and Pascal but def the case for some other languages

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