Here’s Rob Pike’s proposal to change Go’s int to be arbitrary precision in Go 2.0. But after five years of debate about “performance”, the proposal has stalled.

Here’s Rob Pike’s proposal to change Go’s int to be arbitrary precision in Go 2.0. But after five years of debate about “performance”, the proposal has stalled. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19623 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19623