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> The hardest parts were numbers (TS has no ints or shorts)

The easy way to handle that would be to just treat "number" as 64-bit float, since that is semantically how Javascript defines them. But that can hurt performance.

Another option is to define your own integer types



> Another option is to define your own integer types

This is what I did. Most int usage is inferred, but if they had to define it explicitly, I make them import { int } from "@tsonic/core/types.js";




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