Your Recursion Is Lying to You
Summary
The article explains how recursion can be elegant but unsafe in production due to stack limits, and that tail call optimization is not reliably supported across JavaScript runtimes. It presents practical alternatives like tail recursion with accumulators, iteration, and the trampoline pattern to maintain readability without risking stack overflow. It emphasizes using recursion for bounded scenarios and preferring explicit iterative designs when depth is unbounded, with code samples illustrating each approach.