Blitz should come in 64 bit

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Polarix(Posted 2017) [#1]
Instead of a puny 2147483647 Blitz could go up to a whopping 9,223,372,036,854,775,807


xlsior(Posted 2017) [#2]
BlitzmaxNG can compile to 64 bit, plus there are add-on math libraries that allow you to use arbitrarily long numbers.


col(Posted 2017) [#3]
You can already do 64 bit long numbers in blitz products that support the 'Long' type. They will be signed as opposed to unsigned, so they'll range from -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807.

NG gives you signed and unsigned types so if you wanted to you can have an unsigned long that will allow a range from 0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615.
NG can also create native x64 applications - as in 64bit pointers for memory addresses plus other some goodies that native x64 compilations give you.