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ErikCorrytoday at 6:35 PM1 replyview on HN

I don't know if you are the author but he wrote:

The only things that can easily go wrong now are:

The compiler turns out to be evil and introduces an “optimization” that I don’t anticipate

The V8 developers turn out to be evil and modify how this logic works and break my assumptions in a future release


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some_furrytoday at 6:37 PM

Ah, right. That was clearly tongue-in-cheek and easily forgettable, not an actual accusation on either party.

I've added an important clarification in case anyone else missed the rest of the prose that discussed how this was entirely my own fault to zero in on a sarcastic turn of phrase: https://soatok.blog/2026/09/12/the-v8-javascript-runtime-und...