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Javascript is just the language. Its your runtime environment (browser) that is letting an unprivileged process consume resources like that without killing it.

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And it seems, his operating system allowing the browser process to take all the CPU.

I would argue that all modern Operating Systems have dark corners and hidden bugs. It is just a question of time until you hit a similar bug on any OS.

I had a similar experience on macOS with Chrome Canary watching a YouTube movie full screen. My laptop simply froze, nothing, except a restart, worked.

Perfectly happy with the existence of OS bugs. As long as they're not used as incorrect evidence to criticize programming languages.

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