Add BigInt reading support
jtbandes opened this issue · comments
Not all values of int64 and uint64 types can be represented in plain Numbers in JS. We currently use int53 which just logs a console.assert error if the number is out of range, but doesn't prevent returning an incorrect value. The new BigInt type can be used instead, but this should be an opt-in feature because it's not source compatible (for instance, 1n + 2 is a type error).
Is there any updates on this issue? If you haven't started working on it, I might be able to contribute since I have a project running into this problem right now.
Please check out @foxglove/rosbag (and @foxglove/rosmsg) which support bigints natively.