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Cannot find name 'bigint'

See original GitHub issue

When launching tsc with the latest version of fast-check I get:

node_modules/fast-check/lib/random/generator/Random.d.ts:42:34 - error TS2304: Cannot find name 'bigint'.

42     nextBigInt(min: bigint, max: bigint): bigint;

On old versions of TypeScript

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:10 (6 by maintainers)

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ashnurcommented, Dec 27, 2018

Drop TS?

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ashnurcommented, Dec 28, 2018

I personally do not gain anything from TypeScript, so for me the invention and spread of use of TypeScript is one of the worst things that happened lately. Doubled the complexity of all builds, everything moves slower, has more issues, there are more compiler to compile the same code to the same targets differently … not fun. 😃

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