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by asb 4244 days ago
Now I'm just waiting for int64.js, which should appear when ES7 value objects come along http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/value-objects2
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Same here. I'm also looking forward to asm.js being a target for JVM, CLR and other garbage collected languages through Typed Objects. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Javascript:SpiderMonkey:OdinMonkey#...

Also, am hoping 'JavaScript Shared Memory, Atomics, and Locks' gets accepted by TC-39. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NDGA_gZJ7M7w1Bh8S0AoDyEq...

Not being able to have 64bit integers in node.js on a 64bit linux kernel can be a considerable issue. This fix can't come soon enough, having to wait for the version after the next is too long.