The Downsides of BigInts in JavaScript

A few of the key differences and disadvantages of working with JavaScript’s new BigInt primitive type

Dr. Derek Austin 🥳
Better Programming
Published in
4 min readJun 5, 2020

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If you are familiar with the new ES2020 feature BigInts, then you already know that they are a new integer primitive type for JavaScript.

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