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Re:Should JavaScript be split into two languages? Google pro... by Kwpolska on Saturday October 26, 2024 @02:17PM (#41956617)
The problem with Google compiler developers is that they will do a search of the google3 repository, find no uses (because Google doesn’t do any advanced math, for example) and declare the language feature to be useless.
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Re:Should JavaScript be split into two languages? Google pro... by Timwi on Saturday October 26, 2024 @03:37PM (#41957146)
Which is ironic because I use Google Sheets a lot and occasionally run into problems when it doesn't support BigInt calculations. Sheets is the best excuse Google has for keeping BigInt support in the language.
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Re:Should JavaScript be split into two languages? Google pro... by Kwpolska on Saturday October 26, 2024 @04:47PM (#41957612)
Excel does not support BigInt either, so Google has no reason to implement it in their cheap imitation.
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