Meme transcription:
Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?
Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”
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Until you get to multi currency, which is why I don't support using ints or longs, and strings are still the only way. There are currencies that have no precision, and others that have 3 or more digits of precision - and then you're looking at doing calculations each time. Strings are the safest way to make sure you're representing exactly what you want to when sending data over the wire or persisting