In a previous discussion, someone was worrying about using floats to represent price in JS. I think this is a consequence on the fear mongering on using floats to store currencies.

Floating Points are hard. There is a study done with academics that shows that even researches that works with float point everyday forget about the format intricacies. And the study didn't even look into the compiler mess.

But I agree with you, some (a lot?) of caution is needed when working with float point is good.