alt Hacker NewsJavascript's delimeter soup ((){([]{})}); can become near impossible to parse barebrained, especially when mixed with indents and semicolons.
Semicolons are just noise. They're absolutely redundant.
Some brackets are necessary, but whitespace/indent languages make it clear there's a lot of redundancy there too.
The goal is to minimise errors and cognitive load. The fewer characters the better.
> whitespace/indent languages make it clear there's a lot of redundancy there too.
The only purpose for whitespace indentation is to make the code easier on the eyes. A space shouldn't have an impact in terms of execution, that would be too hazardous. It's too easy to randomly insert a space rather than a character.