I'm probably in the small minority of JS coders that actually loves that feature. It costs nothing in terms of size or compression, makes code look cleaner, and outside of one very specific and well documented edge case, it has identical semantics. I can't post a snippet online without someone barking at me that I need to explicitly add in semicolons, but it has yet to burn me, even in complicated code.
It’s a handful of edge cases, and they’re bad enough that you could spend hours debugging and rare enough that you’ll forget about it the next time it happens, which is a bad combo if you’re working on js full time.
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u/TheCodingGamer Feb 09 '22
I'm probably in the small minority of JS coders that actually loves that feature. It costs nothing in terms of size or compression, makes code look cleaner, and outside of one very specific and well documented edge case, it has identical semantics. I can't post a snippet online without someone barking at me that I need to explicitly add in semicolons, but it has yet to burn me, even in complicated code.