decimal VS pflag

Try it in JS with console.log(4.225 * 100);, you'll see the same unexpected result. Depending on your needs, it's actually fine to just be off by some amount. If it does really matter, then use an arbitrary precision library like https://github.com/shopspring/decimal to get the results you need.

Most programming languages ( JavaScript, PHP, Go, Python, Java, C# ) have built-in support or 3rd-party libraries for handling this data type, even though the internal implementations can differ:

while working with money, dont use floats, use something like https://github.com/shopspring/decimal (go std lib doesnt have its own decimals yet)

Integers, or something like this: https://github.com/shopspring/decimal

I make heavy use of caching, and was caching both in-memory and in Redis using JSON to convert the data in to a string. The struct itself isn't super complicated, one level nested, and some fields use the shopspring/decimal library.

I actually use this to represent monetary values btw :)

Check out https://github.com/shopspring/decimal for doing money related calculations.

We personally use https://github.com/shopspring/decimal and it works well.

decimal, one of the first Go library that created to work with decimal and monetary value.

https://github.com/shopspring/decimal also.

My understanding is that you can use pflag as a drop in replacement of the standard lib's flag (import flag "github.com/spf13/pflag"). So it can be used as a standalone lib I suppose.

I realy enjoyed the patched version from spf13 with "--" support https://github.com/spf13/pflag

Nice, but Cobra (with pflag underneath) is so, so better.

Not by default on stdlib. There are libraries available though - https://github.com/spf13/pflag

Flag functionality is provided by the pflag library, a fork of the flag standard library which maintains the same interface while adding POSIX compliance.

How does it compare to https://github.com/spf13/pflag ?

spf13 has a drop in pflag that does the - short and -- long flags.

oklog/ulid to generate IDs. coreos/go-oidc for validating JWTs I get from auth. google/go-cmp for comparing structs in tests (unless the project is already using Testify). spf13/pflag because life's too short for Go's flag handling. getkin/kin-openapi for validating reqests/responses against my OpenAPI spec (in tests).

What are the benefits of this package over the widely used spf13/pflag?

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