Bug 179001 – [ESNext] Implement support for BigInt

• Status: NEW
• Component: JavaScriptCore

[Caio Lima]

It is an umbrella bug to keep track of BigInt work.

[Shane Carr]

Also: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209782

[John Leidegren]

I would like to add to this that BigInts don't appear to work as keys in ES Collections. I just took Safari 14 for a spin and ran into the most bizzare bugs where I could insert multiple entries with the same bigint keys in a Map.

For example:

const m = new Map()
m.set(1n, 123)
m.set(1n, 456)

console.log(m)
Map {1n => 123, 1n => 456}

get(1n)
undefined

etc.

Not sure what's up but it is broken.

[Yusuke Suzuki]

(In reply to John Leidegren from comment #2)
> I would like to add to this that BigInts don't appear to work as keys in ES
> Collections. I just took Safari 14 for a spin and ran into the most bizzare
> bugs where I could insert multiple entries with the same bigint keys in a
> Map.
> 
> For example:
> 
> const m = new Map()
> m.set(1n, 123)
> m.set(1n, 456)
> 
> console.log(m)
> Map {1n => 123, 1n => 456}
> 
> get(1n)
> undefined
> 
> etc.
> 
> Not sure what's up but it is broken.

This is fixed in https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/267373/webkit/. You can try it in STP 115 or later :)

[John Leidegren]

Great! When will this be available to the general public? I'm unfamiliar with the release schedule of Safari but it looks to me that there will eventually be a Safari 14.1 release but that may take a while?

[Yusuke Suzuki]

(In reply to John Leidegren from comment #4)
> Great! When will this be available to the general public? I'm unfamiliar
> with the release schedule of Safari but it looks to me that there will
> eventually be a Safari 14.1 release but that may take a while?

We cannot comment on future Apple software releases. After the fix is released, we can comment on that.

[John Leidegren]

Ok, thanks anyway for the information. I'll wait patiently.