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Chrome has removed support for tail recursion (it was briefly enabled). Does anybody know if there are plans to reenable it? Or are they still lobbying for an e

• baron816 9y ago
  No. Last I heard, they were trying to remove proper tail calls from the spec completely. Safari, I believe, is the only browser where it is currently implemented.
  • goatlover 9y ago
    Why? I recall when ES6 first came out, Crockford gave a talk on the good and bad of it. He hated that classes were brought into the language, but was super bullish on tail calls, saying it was the most important new feature.
    • baron816 9y ago
      You’re going to have to ask the Chrome and Firefox teams about that. I’m guessing there’s performance issues—perhaps every function invocation needs to check if it’s a proper tail call?