[zelphirkalt]

> [...] is perfectly capable of expressing functional idioms without the descent into madness.

Except of course deep recursion, which needs to be rewritten into a not so readable externalized stack or some kind of loop replacement. There are difficulties involved with rewriting some recursions as loops and some loops as recursion.

Of course, if JS engines adhered to the standard, they would all have TCO by now and the problem would not exist.

[hgsgm]

All you have to do is use a relocatable stack/heap hybrid like Go does.