You said something to the effect of “it’s not enough to have financial libraries, you also need storage (e.g., db) and transfer (e.g., wire formats)” which sugg

You said something to the effect of “it’s not enough to have financial libraries, you also need storage (e.g., db) and transfer (e.g., wire formats)” which suggests that you can’t just use a standard library to dump JSON to a file or through an HTTP connection. But yes, I can see how databases not having a money type with corresponding routines is going to make life harder.