Honestly I don't mind semicolons; so much that I even type them in Python. (Yes Python has semicolons, they are just optional.) It makes parsing a little bit simpler for both human and automated parsers, it makes statements explicit. There is not really a downside you just type them automatically when you end a statement, like you type Ctrl-S by habit after you stop typing. I find the obsession with semicolon free languages weird.