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I think that the people you are targeting (developers) do not care or know about the issues you are solving, and they also have the skill to make their own thin

I think that the people you are targeting (developers) do not care or know about the issues you are solving, and they also have the skill to make their own thing - its too close to "persist this list of numbers, sum them". Using decimals, how would users generate reports? I think maybe you should do a detailed blog post comparing the difference with the default course of action developers take when they need to record transactions with the benefits decimals provide. At a loans company I worked at before, we just used a transactions table and generated accounting reports using SQL.

andriosr 6y ago
That's great advice, thanks! What sources of data were you pulling into your transactions table at that company? For instance: payment data from Stripe?
- justsomeuser 6y ago
  Well we weren’t really pulling data as our database was the “source of truth”. We had a schedule to charge cards, so the state machine was defined completely in our code - unlike Stripe-like companies that control the state machine and send you events to tell you what is happening.