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Re:The broken promise of Web Components by 31h on Thursday March 16, 2017 @12:31PM (#13886366)
> Possibly embrace the fact that semicolons are noise, and treat JS like you would Ruby or other line oriented languages???

I'd be happy to treat JS as "statements end with a newline, not semicolon", if that were consistently true.

The paradox of Javascript: Do statements end in a semicolon, or newline? If you answer either way, you're sometimes wrong. As far as I can tell this is the only misfeature of JS that is really unfixable.

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