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[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-09, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/9/2022 7:42 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Which is not really surprising. In the 1980's nobody got fired
>> for choosing IBM. Today nobody get fired (in a large conservative
>> company) for choosing above stack.
>
> But some are more courageous.
>

Would that be the Sir Humphrey definition of "courageous" ? :-)

> Chase and Lloyds have announced that they will be
> replacing their current custom retail banking systems with
> a standard cloud based system Vault developed by a fintech
> startup and (supposedly) written in Go and Python.
>

Well that should be interesting to follow.

Does Go even have the operations and support associated with money
applications ?

For example, a quick look doesn't even reveal a decimal or BCD data type
within Go itself. I've found both decimal and BCD packages for Go on
GitHub which would also seem to suggest they are not part of Go itself.

Simon.

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