After 10 years of doing it for work, I still get frustrated about language issues.
But semicolons? It’s 2023, why does your language have semicolons at all?
If you’re one of those poor sods stuck with Java, still it’s not an issue, all IDEs will warn you, and basically complete half the code for you.
It’s 2023, why does your language have semicolons at all?
Explicitly constructing your intentions are features of a language.
I LOVE types. I LOVE semi colons. I LOVE compiler errors.
Why? Because the ALTERNATIVE is finding (if you’re lucky) unexpected behaviour at run-time.
I promise, I promise SO HARD, that memes about semi colons or “my code doesn’t compile” are GREAT problems to have.if that’s what’s making you sad, your life is good and you’re getting paid 10x too much.
Types give structure to your program, prevent bugs and make team work easier.
Semicolons are an artifact of the times it was thought multiple statements could go on a same line.
Although I do admit, they make language design easier.
Semicolons are optional in JavaScript unless you are combining multiple statements on a single line, which is generally not something you should be doing anyway.
I avoid them whenever possible. It encourages people to write poorly formatted code. But then I’m a python dev so I tend to be opinionated when it comes to whitespace.
Just slap a formatter on there and call it a day. Semicolon or not, IDGAF, let’s just stop with the formatting bikeshedding. There are more important things to think about. They don’t encourage anything if you don’t think about formatting.
After 10 years of doing it for work, I still get frustrated about language issues.
But semicolons? It’s 2023, why does your language have semicolons at all? If you’re one of those poor sods stuck with Java, still it’s not an issue, all IDEs will warn you, and basically complete half the code for you.
Explicitly constructing your intentions are features of a language.
I LOVE types. I LOVE semi colons. I LOVE compiler errors.
Why? Because the ALTERNATIVE is finding (if you’re lucky) unexpected behaviour at run-time.
I promise, I promise SO HARD, that memes about semi colons or “my code doesn’t compile” are GREAT problems to have.if that’s what’s making you sad, your life is good and you’re getting paid 10x too much.
Semicolons are not at all comparable to types.
Types give structure to your program, prevent bugs and make team work easier. Semicolons are an artifact of the times it was thought multiple statements could go on a same line. Although I do admit, they make language design easier.
Semicolons are optional in JavaScript unless you are combining multiple statements on a single line, which is generally not something you should be doing anyway.
I avoid them whenever possible. It encourages people to write poorly formatted code. But then I’m a python dev so I tend to be opinionated when it comes to whitespace.
Just slap a formatter on there and call it a day. Semicolon or not, IDGAF, let’s just stop with the formatting bikeshedding. There are more important things to think about. They don’t encourage anything if you don’t think about formatting.
This is one of the things I like most about Go. Formatting is already defined and handled by
go fmt. Takes out all format arguments before they start.