Am I correct in stating that standard Typescript no longer requires semi-colons?

Yes. This has been the case for at least two years now.

But don't please. Semicolons are not optional. When you don't put your semicolons, they will inserted by the parser and it can introduce some buggy code especially if you are using some formatter.

The behavior of ASI is fully specified. Semicolons are optional. There is no undefined behavior in the language spec that makes using semicolons somehow safer.

Furthermore, even if you always write semicolons you are still subject to ASI modifying your code by inserting additional semicolons where you don’t want them. So you need to learn the rules of ASI regardless of whether you use semicolons or not. https://feross.org/never-use-semicolons/

There is no ASI in “strict mode”. And modules are always in strict mode.

Edit: I was mistaken about strict mode.

That is just not true. You can write semi-less JS modules, strict mode and ASI are orthogonal.

Indeed, just read the spec: https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-automatic-semicolon-insertion

No mention of strict mode in the section of ASI. Could have sworn that the ASI issues I’ve ran into in the past was resolved by using strict mode, not sure what I’ve got that from.

Thanks for the link!

Can you show an example of such a bug? The only thing I can think of is

    return
        value

which will get flagged by TS as unreachable code (you can try it in https://www.typescriptlang.org/play)

I can't think of a good real world example atm but

Say, you have

    let a = 1
    let b = 2
    (a + b) <--- b won't be 
    accessible here. 

This will also get flagged by ts. But not everyone uses ts. /shrugs

Feross is right, I guess.

I think eslint would flag it as well for what it's worth (https://eslint.org/demo, you have to set it to newer ES version in the Rules configuration at the bottom of the page).