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Building a UI framework +32     Share Try Gemini FileEditViewInsertFormatToolsExtensionsHelp  Heading 3 Inter           Suggesting   Domenic Denicola 8:09 AM Nov 3 I don't think this footnote, particularly the statement "out of the box only supports 64 bit floating point numbers...", is true. BigInt exists and will natively JIT to 64-bit integers. A better point would be how the default, easy code path, which the majority of platform APIs support, only accepts 64 bit floating point numbers, and so a framework would need to carefully decide when and how to convert from BigInt to the default number type. Show more Ian Hickson 12:38 AM Yesterday Hm, interesting, I didn't know about JS BigInt. I don't know if I'd really call it native 64 bit, but I agree that it's somewhat better than just having Number. I'll have to think about how this affects the argument I'm making here. Show more Document tabs Main document 46 Building a UI Framework Introduction About the author Background Applicat

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