Typed objects in JavaScript
Nicholas D. Matsakis, David Herman, Dmitry Lomov · 2014
JavaScript's typed arrays have proven to be a crucial API for many JS applications, particularly those working with large amounts of data or emulating other languages. Unfortunately, the current typed array API offers no means of abstraction. Programmers are supplied with a simple byte buffer that can be viewed as an array of integers or floats, but nothing more.