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by mamcx 853 days ago
Floats vs money is like `ascii` vs `utf-8`.

You can get a bunch of bits, but how you handle it make a ton of differences

Plus, so little languages care about us living in the business world. You can count with fingers in a single hand the languages that are meant for business app.

All the others are bad languages (and libraries, frameworks, data stores), ill-suited for the job. And so, all of them need to reimplement (badly, ad-hoc, bug-ridden) version of money and friends.

And weirdly, no hardware support at all, so our friends on C say: "Look, no important to handle money, bye" and nobody else does it either.