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Re:Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide by savanaly on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:53PM (#9823352)
Major advantage: fewer characters to type and parse (parse with your eyes, that is).

Major disadvantage: in the short term it might be difficult to parse.

Possible additional major disadvantage: programmers may never adapt and find it difficult to parse for ever more.

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Re:Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide by atinoda-kestrel on Saturday July 04, 2015 @10:24AM (#9830221)
Yeah, I'm not sold on "fewer characters" as a win. 'cause then we can have the code golf arguments that inevitably get into the nutty realm.

For visual parsing, consistency matters. In an object literal dec I expect:

  name : value
That's easy to parse visually. Not good is when suddenly we get:

  nameandvalue(){
in the space that our brain expects the former.
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