[alyandon]

Serious question - has Javascript the language evolved any features for handling integer math correctly so expressions like 2*57 aren't silently rounded? I realize that in most cases Javascriopt is "good enough" for useful work but I've seen even senior engineers get tripped up by Javascript's corner cases when it comes to its handling of integer vs float.

[wk_end]

There's BigInt [0]. Probably less useful for this specific case, but possibly useful as well, are typed integer arrays [1].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...

[alyandon]

Ah, very cool. Thanks.

[throwaway632]

> handling integer math correctly

JavaScript doesn't have integers. Everything is a float. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Although it has BigInt now.

[alyandon]

Yes, I'm aware that internally it is using floating point representation and that is one of the main reasons I avoid using it for anything math related. However, I am now aware that BigInt() exists so thanks for the link.