Re:Ask HN: Why are many Web Frameworks using BigInt?
by webmobdev on Monday September 11, 2023 @02:49PM
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I honestly wasn't even aware this was an issue. But someone who works with browsers would obviously encounter such issue that they have to address, and that's why I quoted the specific excerpt from Pale Moon release notes. A search for "BigInt" in their forum does display a lot of complains about it - https://forum.palemoon.org/search.php?keywords=bigint ... Angular is mentioned (and it is popular) but it could be that the release notes may not be talking about the popular frameworks but just generic "web framework" in general.
Re:Ask HN: Why are many Web Frameworks using BigInt?
by dchest on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @05:46AM
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It don't know why it would be "an issue" — it's a part of the ECMAScript standard. Do they only implement new language features when something breaks and then wonder in release notes why somebody would use these features? Seems like not a good way to develop a modern browser.
Angular has a single instance of it in the client code where they do a SHA1 digest. That's it.