> It shouldn't be necessary to write them in the first place. I love Go's lack of semicolons but I don't extend that to some foolhardy attempt to write JavaScr

> It shouldn't be necessary to write them in the first place. I love Go's lack of semicolons but I don't extend that to some foolhardy attempt to write JavaScript without semicolons. In JavaScript, support for proper semicolon-less style is clearly lacking in practice if not in spec (if it weren't lacking this wouldn't be a oft-recurring story, but it is).