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by buu700 3269 days ago
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)!