Money is everywhere. Banking apps, e-commerce websites, stock exchange platforms, we interact with money daily. We also increasingly rely on technology to handle ours. Yet, there’s no consensus around how to programmatically handle monetary values. It’s a prevalent concept of modern societies, yet it’s not a first-class data type in any mainstream language, while things like date and time are. As a result, every piece of software comes up with its own way of handling money, with all the...
