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spiffytechtoday at 2:52 AM1 replyview on HN

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


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shaknatoday at 5:53 AM

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.

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