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.

Usually 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.

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.

Why does everyone hate this comment? Attitude? I can’t figure out the wavelength here. I’m just commenting.