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That “weirdness” is just scientific notation, which the Ryu implementation always emits. It is “superficial” in the sense that it’s separate from the core algorithm. When I adapted it for C++17 charconv in MSVC, I implemented fixed, general, and “plain shortest” notation, which will print 0.3 there. (General notation follows C printf %g’s rules for switching between fixed and scientific; “plain shortest” notation selects the one that’s fewer characters, tiebreaking to prefer fixed).

In ClickHouse* we patched Ryu to provide nicer representations and to have better performance for floats that appear to be integers.

* https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/8542

The change to Ryu is here: https://github.com/ClickHouse-Extras/ryu/pull/1