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Re:Deno Joins TC39 by hajile on Monday December 13, 2021 @11:37AM (#29541179)
Proper tail calls are ALREADY part of the spec.

Google and Mozilla simply chose to ignore the spec.

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Re:Deno Joins TC39 by Scarbutt on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:21PM (#29541753)
More like Google, Mozilla just waits to see if Google is going to implement it since they can't think for themselves.
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Re:Deno Joins TC39 by adamddev1 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:49AM (#29548955)
It would be so nice to have it though! It could do a lot popularize recursive problem-solving and function writing, without having to go into modifying these functions to make them stack-safe.
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