v3 happiness

[John Lee]

Prompted by noticing Martin replying on another thread to say he thought he'd be working a little on this soon:

Just wanted to pop in to say I'm eagerly looking forward to the point when the v3 work gets closer to usability by mortal beings!

beancount seems like it has a lot to offer that would make a real difference to me over ledger. In particular, my impression is that the docs are impressive in scope (getting a bit more into things like book-keeping etc. concepts and how to apply them to solve particular problems with beancount than is so for the ledger docs?) and look high quality. I also like the emphasis on detecting user mistakes. Possibly the cost basis stuff might help me too since my tracking of stocks is poor, though I don't really understand that yet. The only thing making me hesistate (apart from my existing ledger file needing attention before I start moving anything) is performance, so v3 sounds perfect.

[Martin Blais]

Thanks John!

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[Chary Chary]

I agree,

Documentation is really impressive.

Makes me also ask myself: if Martin writes these kind of documentation for a hobby project, what does it look then for his work?

[Martin Blais]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 1:43 PM Chary Chary <char...@gmail.com> wrote:

I agree,

Documentation is really impressive.

Makes me also ask myself: if Martin writes these kind of documentation for a hobby project, what does it look then for his work?

Thanks Chary.

Work is completely different. Work involves collaborating and corralling other people toward a common goal ("leadership"). Negotiating and compromising over parameters of the thing we're building, coming up with decent enough solutions that make most people happy enough (vs. near-complete dictatorial control and indulging perfectionistic tendencies). Lots of talking, selling the production, talking with clients, trying to get things launched with measurable impact. It's a completely different game, with a different level of engagement, a different (much slower) pace, and completely different outcomes. I'd be lying if I didn't say "I don't want to grow up" and I still prefer hacking on something myself. Some people devolve into woodwork or learn to fly airplanes on retirement; I'm going to spend mine building software.

On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 at 10:45:45 AM UTC+2 j...@pobox.com wrote:

Prompted by noticing Martin replying on another thread to say he thought he'd be working a little on this soon:

Just wanted to pop in to say I'm eagerly looking forward to the point when the v3 work gets closer to usability by mortal beings!

beancount seems like it has a lot to offer that would make a real difference to me over ledger. In particular, my impression is that the docs are impressive in scope (getting a bit more into things like book-keeping etc. concepts and how to apply them to solve particular problems with beancount than is so for the ledger docs?) and look high quality. I also like the emphasis on detecting user mistakes. Possibly the cost basis stuff might help me too since my tracking of stocks is poor, though I don't really understand that yet. The only thing making me hesistate (apart from my existing ledger file needing attention before I start moving anything) is performance, so v3 sounds perfect.

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[Chary Chary]

 Some people devolve into woodwork or learn to fly airplanes on retirement; I'm going to spend mine building software.

Martin, this is great!

As long as you keep safe, migrating personal finance to beancount should be a safe option then! 

 

[Daniele Nicolodi]

On 13/07/2021 10:45, John Lee wrote:
> The only thing making me hesistate (apart from my existing ledger
> file needing attention before I start moving anything) is
> performance, so v3 sounds perfect.

In my experience the performance of Beancount is more than adequate for
regular use cases. Performance is an issue only with very large ledgers
that are mostly encountered when stock trading is recorded. Even in
these circumstances it is not very problematic to split out old
transactions from the work ledger and keep Beancpunt snappy.

Have you tried to use the current release and realized that it is too
slow for your use case or are you simply fearing that it may be too slow
from comments you read?

Cheers,
Dan