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[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/11/2022 2:36 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 7/11/22 14:22, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-07-09, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> We had that for C decades ago.  It still didn't make C a good
> language for writing financial programs.  :-)

I am puzzled as well.

Go is not an obvious language for a business program - Go
is more low level and more geared towards infrastructure.

Java, C# etc. would be more obvious.

But maybe we are looking at retail banking system the
wrong way.

Maybe it is not a lot of complex financial operations with
a trivial frontend.

Maybe it is a complex frontend with some trivial financial
operations at the back.

And then Go makes sense.

I don't know. Just thinking out loud.

Arne