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Re:Overview of JavaScript ES6 features by gotofritz on Monday October 24, 2016 @03:52PM (#12782228)
Vi vs Emancs? Weak vs strong typing?? tabs vs spaces??? where did you get those??

The ONLY holy war in JS is the semi-colon one

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Re:Overview of JavaScript ES6 features by lmkg on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:39PM (#12782662)
That's what OP is saying: programming has plenty of holy wars that predate JavaScript.
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Re:Overview of JavaScript ES6 features by gotofritz on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:05AM (#12786379)
You are right, I misread his comment
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Re:Overview of JavaScript ES6 features by abritinthebay on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:47AM (#12785805)
Clearly you have never encountered the strange "comma first" brigade.
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Re:Overview of JavaScript ES6 features by gotofritz on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:04AM (#12786369)
Au contraire, for a while I was one of them. But I think we were seen as too weird to even bother with a holy war
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Re:Overview of JavaScript ES6 features by ieatkittens on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:03AM (#12785860)
Though I don't see why this is a holy war in the first place. Clearly, no-semicolon is the only way to go.

:^)

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Re:Overview of JavaScript ES6 features by gotofritz on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:04AM (#12786373)
[loads machine gun...]
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