Failed to load bindings, pure JS will be used

[mytecor]

1.1.5 on windows

[gnarea]

According to trufflesuite/ganache#1080 (comment), this warning can be avoided by having the build tools pre-installed.

[jmrossy]

Same on MacOS

[jmrossy]

GIven that fallback to pure JS is possible, it seems like this line just creates noise and confusion: https://github.com/no2chem/bigint-buffer/blob/master/src/index.ts#L16

I'd recommend simply removing it. It's better if libs like this don't log to console. If you really want to log anyway, you can use a lib like debug and log under your namespace, so devs can optionally enable that logging as desired.

[silasdavis]

It is problematic when a library starts emitting unsolicited warnings to stderr. For example I am running a script as a form of FFI from a virtual machine. That virtual machine interprets non-empty stderr as a reason to halt. We also may explicitly wish to use the pure JS version, our downstream users shouldn't be issued this as a warning.

Looks like it would be straight-forward to provide a mechanism to opt out of this warning WarnOnPureJS = true could be the default, then anyone wishing to disable that can set it globally to false.