Blowing up a browser tab with bad JavaScript is not considered to be a problem. But kernel panicking the computer is different--this brings us back to the bad old days of MacOS where a buggy program could force a freeze/restart at any time.
replyUsually you can't freeze the whole system UI with an infinite counter though. I'm pretty sure normal JS browser processes are not supposed to be able to do that.
replyIt only froze Safari tabs for me. Not even Safari's own UI except for the web pages themselves.
replyIt did do it to all tabs though.
There's more to it than just a loop. If it was just a loop, it would peg a CPU core and be done with it. But you'll have to reread TFA to find out how it takes out the window server, thus freezing the rest of the system.
replyWhy does everyone hate this comment? Attitude? I can’t figure out the wavelength here. I’m just commenting.
replyBecause kernel panics are a wildly different class of bug than breaking one browser tab. An "Oh Snap" is the designed outcome of a JavaScript infinite loop. Crashing the whole computer is not.
reply> Why does everyone hate this comment?
reply"It's just" dismissals are annoying when they're blatantly wrong. An infinite-loop counter in Orion.app shouldn't cause my entire machine to freeze, down to being unable to force quit.
"It's just" is usually an annoying way to start a comment.
replyAn infinite loop in JavaScript causes a different issue. It doesn't cause the rest of your tabs to stop working too. Or allegedly the entire rest of the OS though I can't reproduce that.
replyHate does seem to be on the rise across the board, even for fairly trivial things. About all one person can do is try to set a non-hate example.
replyPlus provide a corrective upvote from time to time especially when a knee-jerk robot is suspected, or a maybe it's an actual person where you can't tell the difference.
Sometimes it gets so bad that people hate it when you try to keep a decent article from plummeting under the depths of a sea of slop.
I think it's well-recognized that robots are more prevalent than ever and it doesn't seem to be making things better at this point.