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0 pointsspiffytech21d ago0 comments

Fortunately we're seeing more JS DB libraries offering to read large numbers as the BigInt type.

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shakna21d ago· 3 in thread

But frustratingly, a JS BigInt is nothing like a BigInt in any other language.

In JS - BigInt is 64bit integer.

In anything else - BigInt is a arbitrarily large integer.

anematode21d ago

Hm? JavaScript BigInts are arbitrary precision, and you need to use methods like BigInt.asIntN(64, a) to convert them to 64 bits

mort9620d ago

I hate this so much because you can’t nicely serialise a BigInt as JSON. Using a string is nicer but it only makes sense where int64 is used as an ID, not where it’s used as a number; and you don’t wanna have to configure this per field per query.

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Etheryte21d ago

This is simply not true? Or maybe I misunderstand what you mean?

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