[leroman]

Javascript is also a very popular back-end language (Node JS)..

[dgb23]

Yes, but even there it is typically used for stuff that leans towards front-end. People don't typically write databases and messaging systems in Nodejs.

I wonder about specific use cases where stack allocating recursion actually becomes an issue in the JS world.

[zeven7]

People do a lot more in JavaScript than you realize.

[dgb23]

That's what I'm wondering about. When was the last time you blew the stack with JS and what did you try to accomplish?

Another commenter said they had problems walking a dependency graph.

[zeven7]

For some examples: People have 3D game engines running in JavaScript. There's a lot of cryptographic work in JavaScript, including but not limited to cryptocurrencies - a lot of groundbreaking stuff from a technological perspective. Full blown emulators, developer tools, virtual machines... the world of JavaScript is way larger than CRUD applications.