* Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> [2018-03-30 16:15]: > That sounds interesting. I have one question: why would I want to > migrate to beancount? > > Actually, one possible answer is the existence of a Web UI
I'm a command-line person myself and use ledger reg and bal all the time and I was completely surprised by how much I like the web UI. It makes things so much simpler. I can click on some account names and navigate around very easily. And it offers charts, so I can actually *see* what's going on. It's very interesting to see the pattern on some accounts (e.g. the spike once a month when your salary comes in, or the spike in the other direction when you pay rent ;) And money coming into a pension and then being invested a few days later). Fava doesn't do everything I want yet but the developers are *very* responsive. I don't know what Emacs' ledger-mode is like, but compared to the command-line I really love the web UI. And you can still do command-line stuff in bean-count since it has a powerful SQL-inspired language. Anyway, I think it's a personal choice, but there are a number of reasons I'm in the process of moving from ledger to beancount: * Python interface: beancount has a powerful Python interface, so you can do interesting things with your data. Ledger has a very basic Python interface and I've been waiting for years for it to get better but nobody is working on it. * Written in Python: this makes it more likely I can fix bugs myself * More maintained: John has done a fantastic job creating ledger but he's very clear that he has little interest in working on the C++ code base. Martin Blais (the maintainer of beancount) is quite busy too but I think there's more chance of a community forming around beancount. * Web UI (fava), truly the "killer app" for beancount * Great documentation * Great design (clear data structures, solid documentation, cleare syntax, etc) Again, ledger is fantastic. I've used it since 2010 and I'm very grateful to John for creating ledger and introducing the idea of text-based accounting. But from my POV, beancount is the way forward and I intend to focus my efforts there. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
