> Integer numbers are typically represented by the type Int, which represents a ...

		jcparkyn on July 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Val, a high-level systems programming language > Integer numbers are typically represented by the type Int, which represents a machine-size integer (usually 64 bits on modern computers). I'm not a systems programmer, but I thought there was a consensus these days that this was a Bad Idea™? Are the benefits of marginally better performance on certain platforms really worth having your program break due to an overflow when you run it on a different platform?

Zig has both fixed size types and a native-pointer-sized type. I think it's the right approach, in general you need both.