alt Hacker Newsand TCO was added then removed from js! https://stackoverflow.com/a/54721813
This leads to fun stack-overflow bugs too in a lot of js code (one solution is to flatten: https://joshua.hu/javascript-infinite-tail-call-recursion-st...)
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pfdietz • today at 12:18 PM
Lack of TCO is also a common footgun for Scheme programmers using Common Lisp.
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Js really should have it. I think the shift in style from functional and manual prototype chains to Java classes is quite disappointing.