I am impressed with HN gracefully degrading the handling of the URL. It doesn't know how to parse the url for the preview on the homepage, but it doesn't crash the page or prevent the link entry from rendering.
I’m not using anything fancy when I visit HN, what is it doing to preview the homepage and why would it crash or prevent anything from rendering? I don’t even understand what you’re congratulating HN for other than having hyperlinks.
I can see that crashing some languages
Depends how strict they are at runtime
I keep re-reading this and I just have to admit that I sincerely don’t understand. What runtime behavior is potentially crash prone in the first place? Are you saying stricter behavior would be more crash prone, or less? Which languages are more likely to be susceptible? I’m baffled and truly don’t mean to be dismissive.