Hello @valhalla-dev <[email protected]>, I just recently watched the video from JavaOne 2026 by Joe Darcy titled "Paths to New Numeric Types on the Java Platform". Here is a link to it.
https://reddit.com/r/java/comments/1vdesc4/paths_to_new_numeric_types_on_the_java_platform/ My question is about Fractions. The talk mentions that, if the mentioned features ever ship, we can expect to see Float16, amongst others, added to the JDK. Might we see Fractions join that list? I attempted my own version of this, titled BigNumber. Simply put, it was a class with a BigInteger numerator and a BigInteger denominator. Thus, arbitrary precision until you need to cast/convert to another type. It was a really pleasant alternative to BigDecimal. Here is the class -- https://github.com/davidalayachew/BigNumber I'm not at all proposing that my implementation is the right way to do it. Furthermore, I can make my own if/when this feature drops. But I wanted to ask if a fraction type like this might be added, as I suspect that this would be a valuable tool for others too. Thank you for your time and consideration. David Alayachew
