~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?!?"

[–] tryagain@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I don't even bother typing them because I like having eslint do it for me.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] tkarika@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every real programmers

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] BearJCC@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago

People who like minimizing the amount of bug fixing.

[–] manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

That's what I do too, but i don't manually add them