[flavio81]

What I wish ECMAScript had was true support for number types other than the default 32-bit float. I can use 32 and 64 bit integers using "asm.js", but this introduces other complications of its own -- basically, having to program in a much lower level language.

It would be nice if EcmaScript could give us a middle ground -- ability to use 32/64 bit integers without having to go all the way down to asm.js or wasm.

[buu700]

Tangential to your point, but JS numbers are actually 64-bit floats (capable of safely representing 53-bit ints), not 32-bit.

But yes, 100% agreed; this is a major pain point of the language right now. Nice to hear that there's finally some movement on fixing it (as per arthurdenture's comment)!

[arthurdenture]

There's a BigInt proposal at stage 2, which might meet some of your needs: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint

[hzoo]

It's parseable in Babel 7, issue to implement the transform is https://github.com/babel/proposals/issues/2