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newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
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Who uses semicolons in Javascript?

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seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
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seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
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~95% of the JS code you see on the Web has semicolons. Apparently, a lot of programmers think it’s worth that extra keystroke to avoid these types of bugs. I agree with them. The difficulty with programming isn’t “Arrgh, there are too many keystrokes, my hands are tired!” It’s “Arrgh, HTF did this bug get in here?!?”

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rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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They made it a named function, but this is literally how you format anonymous functions in js, a key feature that usually gets called with stuff like an onclick or onload call in the html domain.

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tkarika@lemmy.world
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Every real programmers

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psud@aussie.zone
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In that sentence, we use “programmer” singular, because “every” is singular, though referring to many

All real programmers

Every real programmer

Each real programmer

No real programmer

It’s pretty arbitrary

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BearJCC@lemmy.sdf.org
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Old habits die hard. Learned JS, CSS and C++ all the same year about a decade ago.

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Perfide@reddthat.com
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People who like minimizing the amount of bug fixing.

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manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com
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I use prettier which by default adds semicolons. Coming from predominately doing backend stuff (mostly in Java) I don’t really mind, especially when the formatter adds them for me

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newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
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That’s what I do too, but i don’t manually add them

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