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[–] FooBarrington 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh boy, are you gonna LOVE Javascript

[–] vala 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is your point that JS doesn't really need semicolons at all any more?

[–] FooBarrington 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not just that, it's the reason why it doesn't need semicolons: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/JavaScript/Automatic_semicolon_insertion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Javascript and html are more suggestions on how to write something that may work in a web browser.