> when serializing, all signed integers need to be sign-extended to 64 bits, to support interop between different integer types
FWIW, I think it'd be awesome if the only wire integer format were a bignum, in order to support full interoperability between integer types. Maybe even do that same for floats, too …
FWIW, I think it'd be awesome if the only wire integer format were a bignum, in order to support full interoperability between integer types. Maybe even do that same for floats, too …