Politely, I think this comment may be incorrect advice. I think correctness and ...

hannofcart on June 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fintech engineering mistakes (2022)

Politely, I think this comment may be incorrect advice.

I think correctness and precision requirements of financial transactions outweighs any devex concerns. Lots of banking and trading APIs do exactly this: pass your currency fields as strings.