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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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