Bigint Shipping in Firefox

I am delighted to share with folks the results of a project I have been helping out on for the last few months: implementation of “BigInt” in Firefox, which is finally shipping in Firefox 68 (beta). As a new kind of primitive value, bigint values have their own :

Besides allowing for more kinds of math to be easily and efficiently expressed, BigInt also allows for better interoperability with systems that use 64-bit numbers, such as “inodes” in file systems, WebAssembly i64 values, high-precision timers, and so on. I must mention that my role in the BigInt work was relatively small; my Igalia colleague Robin Templeton did the bulk of the BigInt implementation work in Firefox, so large ups to them.

Source: wingolog.org