Baffled by the addition of BigInts to JavaScript. I mean, as a library, sure, but high precision large integers are a rare uses case, aren't they? Why do they deserve language level support?
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For what? I'm truly curious here. I think I've needed bigger than default ints once in my whole career. And that was in a language without bigint support, so I had to hack around it myself. (But it was overflowing database IDs. No math.)
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math is an important use case! crypto physics i use mathematica a lot. 64 bits is really not enough unless you want to get clever, and cleverness impedes fluency
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