alt Hacker News> memory monitoring would be part of the application monitoring stack
You don't need it if you have everything allocated upfront. TigerBeetle does this, everybody else can.
Using something like Rust is already a huge win when compared to shipping a browser or running Node.js.
> Your argument falls flat when a page file can be multi-GB and automatically grow
This doesn't solve the original issue and only masks the underlying problem.
> This doesn't solve the original issue and only masks the underlying problem.
You're moving goal posts. No, a page file doesn't solve the problem of a misbehaving application, but it does solve the problem of an app crash because no more VAS allocation can be made.
You should really dive into Windows Internals. Only misinformed gamers turn off page files.