Re:Show HN: Scratch.js – Interactive JavaScript Scratchpad
by teraflop on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:02PM
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"Solving" infinite loops doesn't necessarily mean accurately predicting a priori whether a piece of code will terminate. It can just mean ensuring that if the code does try to run indefinitely, it doesn't have unfortunate effects such as blocking the UI thread without the possibility of being interrupted.
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Re:Show HN: Scratch.js – Interactive JavaScript Scratchpad
by gitgud on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:03PM
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> It can just mean ensuring that if the code does try to run indefinitely, it doesn't have unfortunate effects such as blocking the UI thread without the possibility of being interrupted.
Well that can be achieved by executing the code in a background worker thread. Which doesn't affect the UI thread in browsers... no sure how it's managed but I think you could terminate it after a certain amount of time too