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Javascript has the normal (C syntax) set of bitwise operations that operate on 32 bit numbers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

JS supports integers; it just doesn't have an integer type so you can't always store, operate, etc on them efficiently (though a smart engine can do some of that for you). It has bitwise manipulation operations which treat the Number as a 32 bit int. There are also Typed Arrays which make it easier to work on raw binary data. Though yes, it can occasionally get a little finicky trying to interface a high level dynamic language with lower level stuff.

Anyway, for this I'm sure there will be a lot of libraries that handle that for you and expose a fairly high level api; like the blinking led in the example.

And when the engine cannot do that for you, there is always Math.imul

Is this a joke?