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I have a little extension I wrote for myself to improve some things, and that's also having difficulty. So yeah, not just you.

The hardest part of moderating a big, high-traffic, heated political thread being JavaScript's lack of tail recursion is the most HN thing I've ever seen.

> The browser extension I rely on for moderation (written in Arc and transpiled to JS) is stack-overflowing

Throw more hardware at it! Get a maxed-out Macbook same day delivered.

Server(s?) seems to be holding up well given what must be record activity levels.

> Javascript's lack of tail recursion

Even in Safari? [1]

[1]: "As of July 22, 2023 Safari is the only browser that supports tail call optimization" https://stackoverflow.com/a/37224563

The software I'm talking about is, alas, a Chrome extension.

Hacking a Lisp compiler is a perfectly reasonable sidequest for any task!