When to use Bitwise Operators during webdevelopment?

Question

Although I grasp the concept of Bitwise Operators, I can\'t say that I have come across many use cases during the webdevelopment process at which I had to resort to using Bi

Answer 1

Generally, you don't need to concern about operations at the bit level. You can think in bytes, ints, doubles, and other higher level data types. But there are times when you'd like to be able to go to the level of an individual bit.

One of the most common utilization cases of the bitwise operators are the flags (php example). The bitwise operators are also used in binary file IO operations.