• nathris@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Semicolons are optional in JavaScript unless you are combining multiple statements on a single line, which is generally not something you should be doing anyway.

    I avoid them whenever possible. It encourages people to write poorly formatted code. But then I’m a python dev so I tend to be opinionated when it comes to whitespace.

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      8 months ago

      Just slap a formatter on there and call it a day. Semicolon or not, IDGAF, let’s just stop with the formatting bikeshedding. There are more important things to think about. They don’t encourage anything if you don’t think about formatting.

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        8 months ago

        This is one of the things I like most about Go. Formatting is already defined and handled by go fmt. Takes out all format arguments before they start.