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Previous discussion of this from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12520674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12520674 (Seems like a terrible idea

• blauditore 7y ago
  True, for source code it might be better to leave those in. However, the fact that omitting them is standard-compliant is interesting for automated minimizers.
• 52-6F-62 7y ago
  Yep I agree with that top comment. Explicit is far more understandable and maintainable than implicit.
• jammygit 7y ago
  I tried this for a summer, it really did lead to easier to read HTML... although now when I go back I’m not sure which tags can be omitted and which might be errors. I think it’s probably a net negative trade off but still not certain. These days Im trying out pug instead, which is similar in a sense: more concise and readable at the expense of other people being certain of its correctness and myself remembering the syntax months later.