> Nobody was evil you just tried to rely on a property that V8 never promised.
Tell me you didn't read past the headline without telling me you didn't read past the headline.
Tell me you didn't read past the headline without telling me you didn't read past the headline.
The only things that can easily go wrong now are:
The compiler turns out to be evil and introduces an “optimization” that I don’t anticipate
The V8 developers turn out to be evil and modify how this logic works and break my assumptions in a future release
I've added an important clarification in case anyone else missed the rest of the prose that discussed how this was entirely my own fault to zero in on a sarcastic turn of phrase: https://soatok.blog/2026/09/12/the-v8-javascript-runtime-und...