I can’t remember wishing I had int32 or uint8 if that’s what you mean. Not having int64 or int128 is kind of annoying but bigint fills in there fine.
Currently the "Number" type is used for every number and it gets stored as a double, and can "only" represent "integers" safely in the range of ±(2^53 -1). Though there is a "BigInt" [1] type.
[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data...
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data...
* Integer types of various sizes (for efficiency) and so you don't have to constantly do floating point comparisons (i.e. equal within a small delta) and generally have better compatibility with other languages. * Decimal floating point type so you can work in base-10 and don't have rounding issues.
Plus all of the error checking you get for free if you're using typescript instead of raw-dogging it with plain javascript or coffee-script :-)