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Introducing any mental overhead to eliminate a single character per line at most seems a tad ridiculous.
by traes 6y ago
Introducing any mental overhead to eliminate a single character per line at most seems a tad ridiculous.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoI haven't used semicolons for at least 5 years. Let's not overstate the "overhead", which I would say is zero. Especially in this comment thread where we just established the tooling handles it for you. Frankly, I die inside every time I work with a semicolon codebase and have to move a semicolon just to chain onto: promise .then() .catch(); + .then(); foo .bar() .baz(); + .qux(); You are making the common developer/HNer mistake of overvaluing familiarity and overestimating how hard anything slightly unfamiliar must be. I challenge you to try it the next time you write some Javascript. Don't use semis and remember the one rule I taught you.