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		kristianp 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS Are you saying that Lua's TCO is an accidental feature due to the first implementation having it? How accurate is that?

kerkeslager 4 months ago [–]

What? No, I'm definitely not saying that.

I'm saying it isn't very useful argue about whether a feature is a feature of the language or a feature of the implementation, because the language is pretty useless independent of its implementation(s).

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