// Hacker Noon · 11 May 2026

Your Recursion Is Lying to You About Stack Safety

This article explores the gap between theoretical tail recursion and practical runtime behavior in JavaScript. Using recursive sum and Fibonacci examples, it explains why tail-recursive code can still overflow the stack in modern engines despite ECMAScript’s proper tail call specification, and exami...

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