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Re:Async/Await will make code simpler by askAwayMan on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:15PM (#15066948)
If you've got a halfway decent linter, semicolons are just clutter. https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-unexpected-multiline is the sort of thing that makes semicolon free style practical.
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Re:Async/Await will make code simpler by Bahamut on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:39PM (#15067174)
There is one situation where semicolons are important - when concatenating multiple script files & using IIFEs.

This subtlety is being obsoleted by ES modules & the build tooling around them, but it is a nasty bug that has sucked many an hour away from frontend devs whenever it is encountered.

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