gistfile1.txt

~/Downloads/node-v0.4.1> less pop-stack.js 
function doAThing(i) {
  console.log("Iter " + i);
  doAThing(i + 1);
}

doAThing(1); // this should be good

~/Downloads/node-v0.4.1> ./node pop-stack.js 
Iter 1
Iter 2
...
Iter 676
Iter 677
Iter
node.js:116
        throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
        ^
undefined

Try process.nextTick(function () { doAThing(i+i); }) instead?

And yeah, after seeing more on twitter, it's kind of despairingly silly to have to do this.

process.nextTick is deprecated, use setImmediate instead