From Chris Lattner on Modular discord few days ago: Yep, that's right. Int behaving like a machine integer is very important for systems performance. Leaving

From Chris Lattner on Modular discord few days ago: Yep, that's right. Int behaving like a machine integer is very important for systems performance. Leaving the "int" namespace untouched allows us to have a object-based bigint in the future for compatibility with python. As others have mentioned above, it is still a goal to be compatible with python in time, just not a short term priority