Can't recover from infinite loops

[kyldvs]

For example, just write while(true); in the transform script and the whole browser will freeze when the code is run.

(practically I ran into this by introducing some accidental infinite recursion)

Instead of solving the halting problem, it would be cool if we just put a timeout on the transform and killed it after 30 seconds or so.

[fkling]

That wouldn't really help since the loop will block the event loop. The setTimeout callback would never run (or am I misunderstanding your suggestion?). The only solution would be to run the transform in a webworker.

[kyldvs]

Ah.. right. Is there enough support for webworkers across browsers that it would be reasonable to use them?

[kyldvs]

This is actually pretty annoying, while writing a completely safe for loop it's easy to cause an infinite loop and crash the tab. For example this puts you in an un-recoverable state if there's any valid statement after it.

const maxDepth = 3;
for (let i = 0; i < maxDepth;)

[fkling]

This should be solved now with #39.