Andreas Rossberg wrote:
As said above, we already have the primitive case, and you are just adding yet another kind of beast. I don't think that would be improving anything. On the contrary.
This is an argument from minimization of primitive concepts or kinds, but I argue the better way on the web (given backward compatibility) is not to mimimize at such a reductive level. Users mostly ignore the boolean, number, and string wrappers, which are unobservable in strict mode. Users do not want more wrappers, e.g., Uint64 for uint64. No use-case is served by such beasts.
You might argue that "total cognitive load" is lower, but I reply that since wrappers are almost completely unobservable and not used explicitly, the load of having two types, symbol/Symbol, bignum/Bignum, etc., is strictly higher.
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