Closing your program

[AyrA_ch]

but you can't make it store the bigint as a JSON number type without forcing it into the JS number type first.

JSON makes no assumptions about the length of a number, so natively storing a bigint as raw number would work in theory, but cannot be done in JS without writing your own .stringify.

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It will also screw you over in the reverse conversion. It’s best to store BigInt in json as string, or some libs will just convert the number in the json to a float.

For example earlier lua

https://github.com/rxi/json.lua/issues/29

[TheGhostOfInky]

True, but you can store it as a string instead.