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[jonstewart]

Parse binary structs... with a language that only has doubles.

[FrancisStokes → jonstewart]

I'm guessing you haven't seen the new data types?

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[gridlockd → jonstewart]

Nowadays Javascript supports packed binary data natively. The only things that Javascript lacks is a 64-bit integer type. All other numeric types can safely be represented in a double.

JITs can also use integer types internally when possible (small integer optimization).