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Re:JavaScript is Eating the World by borisj on Thursday August 24, 2017 @09:37AM (#15089968)
Javascript is just the language. Its your runtime environment (browser) that is letting an unprivileged process consume resources like that without killing it.
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Re:JavaScript is Eating the World by curtisblaine on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:22AM (#15090311)
And it seems, his operating system allowing the browser process to take all the CPU.
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Re:JavaScript is Eating the World by AlexeyBrin on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:39AM (#15090439)
I would argue that all modern Operating Systems have dark corners and hidden bugs. It is just a question of time until you hit a similar bug on any OS.

I had a similar experience on macOS with Chrome Canary watching a YouTube movie full screen. My laptop simply froze, nothing, except a restart, worked.

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Re:JavaScript is Eating the World by curtisblaine on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:21AM (#15090821)
Perfectly happy with the existence of OS bugs. As long as they're not used as incorrect evidence to criticize programming languages.
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