Neither Javascript nor Typescript require semicolon, it is entirely a stylistic choice except in very rare circumstances that do not come up in normal code.

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's good to know. Don't know how I didn't know this. Been writing JS since 2000. Always just used them I guess. Ecmascripts look funny to me without them

[–] ScintillatingStruthio@programming.dev 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Fair enough, I like it better without but I don't have a strong preference and have no issue adapting to whatever the style of the repo is.

I learned about it researching tools to automatically enforce formatting style and came across StandardJS, which eliminates them by default.

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I can see the benefit of matching style when working with others. I only code for myself and never had to worry about conformity for project consistency.

It is good to learn new things.

I'm sure I have some coding habitats that would annoy others.

[–] ScintillatingStruthio@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

Consistent styling helps make the actual meaningful changes easier to spot. Probably also useful for your own commit history when working solo in a repo, but most useful in a team, yeah!

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Same here. My brain interprets them as one long run-on sentence and throws a parsing error.

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