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Re:Node 8.3.0 released by coldtea on Friday August 11, 2017 @07:33AM (#14988553)
It's pragmatic because adding proper tail calls in the JS engines is difficult and raises several issues (lost stack frames, memory guarantees, etc.) but we were able to survive 20+ years without having them in JS, so it's not like they are essential.
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Re:Node 8.3.0 released by jnbiche on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:16PM (#14992710)
> we were able to survive 20+ years without having them in JS, so it's not like they are essential.

And voila the attitude I was referring to, it comes out. Recursion is pretty damn essential to functional programming, and like it or not that's the way JS is headed.

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Re:Node 8.3.0 released by coldtea on Sunday August 13, 2017 @11:29AM (#15003280)
>and like it or not that's the way JS is headed.

Well, like it or not, recursion did not make it to ES6/ES7.

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Re:Node 8.3.0 released by jnbiche on Monday August 14, 2017 @08:05AM (#15008058)
It did make it to ES6, but the engines failed to implement the spec.
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