I really like the idea of just treating numbers as a higher level data type instead of ints, floats, signed, unsigned, or whatever. I wish most high level lang

I really like the idea of just treating numbers as a higher level data type instead of ints, floats, signed, unsigned, or whatever. I wish most high level languages kept floats as an implementation detail, and defaulted to decimals. Though I don't see a way around it with a Serialization format like JSON that is meant to work across languages. I've done limited work with static languages, but from what I remember it would be a nightmare to have a variable that could be one of many types. I'm thinking overloading, or interfaces, or something. Could someone familiar with like Go or C#, or whatever explain how they would handle that? Edit: Writing that reminded me of something. If you are using a 64-bit unsigned integer, and you need to convert it to JSON for public use, please do not just give a object with a high and low value in hex. If you decide to do this anyway, but also ship an official Python SDK, just do the conversion in the SDK. I'm looking at you F5. I should have never needed to write this function to read memory usage stats, but it was kind of fun figuring it out. def ulong64_to_int(ulong64): high = ulong64.get('high') low = ulong64.get('low') return int('{0:032b}{1:032b}'.format(high & 0xffffffff, low & 0xffffffff), 2)