When I hear that “you don’t have to use semicolons in Kotlin / Go / whatever” uttered with such e - devRant

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korrat

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I guess it’s less that you don’t need them and more that you won’t have to search for the missing ones
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korrat

658

5y

@Alice don’t question my choice of using cat for development.

In all seriousness though even vim can highlight missing semicolons using autoformat tooling and static analysis.
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ddephor

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5y

They are only a problem in memes.

Not for anyone knowing more than a HelloWorld example and using a decent editor.
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EmberQuill

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5y

I usually say "Whitespace matters!" with relief instead of talking about semicolons. Because developers are forced to at least properly format their code. Mostly. Usually.
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bahua

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Me: <runs script with a missing semicolon>
Interpreter: error on line 114

Why is that bad?
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ihatecomputers

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5y

I guess some people realize that they've hated typing semicolons all along, me included.
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mattwebdev

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5y

In ES6 JS I don't use semi colons.... Not a problem just one less key to type per statement.
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hafiz5626

658

5y

I love semicolons. It feels like ending a sentence with a proper full stop.
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musician

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5y

@mattwebdev unless in very specific cases where it might result in nasty bugs. Thats why I let prettier add those semicolons for me.
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Fast-Nop

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@Alice I develop in Notepad++ and still don't have that issue;

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