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There's a whole hipster movement going on right now around the idea of omitting semicolons from JavaScript code. I believe CoffeeScript is the culprit.

Personally, I agree with Crockford -- it's dumb.



Kind of funny that you say this, since CoffeeScript inserts semicolons.

The lack of semicolons is the one major thing in the Github style guide that I think is stupid. It seems silly to avoid using semicolons in Javascript because it actually takes a little bit more effort than just using them.


On my team we've decided to use semi-colons in JavaScript for this exact reason: It would actually take more effort to stop using them as our other major language is PHP. More effort for no benefit is pointless.


> I believe CoffeeScript is the culprit.

CoffeeScript removes semicolons from CoffeeScript, not JavaScript.


Meh, the real hipsters are just pushing comma-first.


They're all hipsters.




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