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> You seem to be making some sort of negative judgment about that particular issue. Perhaps you'd care to give us the benefit of your reasoning. A freshman lea
by _pmf_ 8y ago
> You seem to be making some sort of negative judgment about that particular issue. Perhaps you'd care to give us the benefit of your reasoning.
A freshman learns not to store data in floating point data types if the significant digits of the data's domain exceeds the floating points guaranteed 1:1 domain.
Some maintainers of node.js's file system module did not (or did not care about it)[].
Given that JS developers are hailed as the pinnacle of software engineering, this strikes me as odd.
[] "But JS does not have a proper 64 bit datatype / BigInts" ... that's not an argument