Definitely (and I'm happy to write a friendlier comment reply, believe me!). Bignums are good, in Dart as in other languages. On the agenda for "Harmony-era" E

Definitely (and I'm happy to write a friendlier comment reply, believe me!). Bignums are good, in Dart as in other languages. On the agenda for "Harmony-era" ECMAScript, going back to 2009: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:bignums http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:bignums More recent work generalizes value types into an extension mechanism for JS, so you can have built-in and user-defined numeric types with operators and literals.