$ uints errors out in JavaScript

[treeform]

var a: uint16 = 1
echo $a

And so do uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64

output:

test.nim(2, 6) Error: type mismatch: got <uint16>
but expected one of: 
proc `$`(x: string): string
proc `$`(x: int): string
proc `$`(x: char): string
proc `$`[Enum: enum](x: Enum): string
proc `$`[T](x: set[T]): string
proc `$`(x: float): string
proc `$`(x: int64): string
proc `$`[T](x: seq[T]): string
proc `$`[T: tuple |
    object](x: T): string
proc `$`(x: bool): string
proc `$`(x: cstring): string
proc `$`[T, IDX](x: array[IDX, T]): string

Nim Compiler Version 0.18.1 [MacOSX: amd64]
Copyright (c) 2006-2018 by Andreas Rumpf

git hash: 325d76b56a5b26ba2d5ce065574eb6ef736eb179
active boot switches: -d:release

[treeform]

This code fixes all of the issues, not sure where it should go:

proc toString(x: uint64): cstring {.importcpp.}
proc `$`*(x: uint64): string = $(x.toString())

It looks like lib/system/repr.nim repr defines its own $ uint16 while lib/system/repr.nim does not. There is also an issue that it uses the JS's toString instead of doing binary to ASCII math itself.

Still an issue

[metagn]

NOT still an issue, #14122 closes this