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They're more typing than no-semicolons and all you stand to gain is code that's harder to read for a majority of programmers. It's really as close as you get to an objectively-bad thing in a programming language.


> objectively-bad

I guess you're confusing objective and subjective here. I think semicolons are nice - they make reading code easier. And the "extra" typing isn't really that much work.

But that's my opinion and so it's subjective. I don't claim to be it the ultimate truth, like you do.




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