thus spaketh jesus of nazareth

javascript programmers consistently score highest on IQ test
javascript programs are extremely fast, bug free, and please the User deeply
javascript is a combination of c and scheme, the 2nd and 3rd best languages
javascript is only for highly skilled programmers who understand asynchronous IO
javascript is the most powerful language ever created

who the fuck cares about memory? my 20 dollar linode instance has 2 gb of ram. If your function needs to call itself that many times, than your algorithm fucking sucks.

if your program is that memory sensitive, then you'll probably need to inline the call into a loop instead of doing recursion (the haskell compiler does this automatically, so unrolling it by hand is not that hard, simply the cost of using a pop culture language).

i'll gladly trade decent stack traces for linear stack space. The speed of a dict lookup is still constant, and the memory gets collected on return anyway.


v8 allows you to turn on TCO if you really need it, but no one ever has in real code.