; Best practice is about a practice that helps create maintainable code. Code is maintained by people. So a best practice is really about getting the best code

; Best practice is about a practice that helps create maintainable code. Code is maintained by people. So a best practice is really about getting the best code delivered by the people you have in the most appropriate time possible, and code that can be maintained by those same group of people and others who may be brought into the project at a later date. Insisting on semicolons means that the bar to entry for being able to develop and maintain a JavaScript code base is lower. Also, we can spend more time thinking about the purpose of the code rather than it's syntax. That helps when it comes to debugging, spending more time thinking about what the code is trying to do rather than losing time figuring out whether the syntax without semicolons is causing an unintended side effect. The lack of semicolons argument reminds me of the Python versus Java argument. Choosing python gives you a much smaller range of people who could work on your project, but on average the quality of that developer would be better than if you opted for Java. The advantage of the non-semicolon stance is that they are increasing the minimum level of competancy before someone can work on their project. The disadvantage of the non-semicolon stance is that they are increasing the minimum level of competancy before someone can work on their project.