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> I haven’t used a trailing semicolon in probably ten years. I haven't used my seat belt in ten years and bangs roof I'm doing just fine!
by ethagnawl 3y ago
> I haven’t used a trailing semicolon in probably ten years.
I haven't used my seat belt in ten years and bangs roof I'm doing just fine!
- hombre_fatal 3y agoThis makes no sense unless you're unaware of tools like Prettier and eslint which are the seatbelt in your analogy (we don't need analogies, please). These tools have changed the argument into one over aesthetics which is why opponents have had to grasp for increasingly hypothetical scenarios where the sky falls because the code doesn't use semicolons. Even in the github thread, it starts off concern-trolling over hypothetical day 1 beginners copy-pasting code into Notepad. That github thread was back in 2012 btw (12 years ago) which was the year of the final throes of the semicolon debate. None of the chicken littling came true. People still upset about semicolons are like that Japanese soldier still hiding in the Philippines in the 1970s thinking WW2 is raging, except they refuse to admit it's just a style preference.