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by senfiaj 160 days ago
I don't know fast it would be if it was done iteratively. But Apple's implementation has negative implications for debuggability: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... https://webkit.org/blog/6240/ecmascript-6-proper-tail-calls-... .

V8 team decided that it's not worth it, since proper stack traces (such as Error.stack) are essential for some libraries, such as Sentry (!). Removing some stack trace info can break some code. Also, imagine you have missing info from the error stack trace in production code running on NodeJS. that's not good. If you need TCO, you can compile that code in WASM. V8 does TCO in WASM.
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pygy_ 160 days ago
That argument was vaguely plausible until WebKit/JavaScriptCore shipped PTC and literally no one bat an eye.

Bun users don’t care either.

At this point it is pure BS.

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senfiaj 160 days ago
> Bun users don’t care either.

Most Bun users don't even know about this (unless they are bitten by this). That doesn't mean absolutely no one cares or would not care even though such complaints might be uncommon.

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