alt Hacker NewsI never actually type semicolons in my JavaScript / TypeScript. In work projects, my IDE adds them for me thanks to the linter. In personal projects, I just leave them out (I don't use a linter, so my IDE does not add them), and I've never had a problem. Not even once.
Semicolon FUD is for the birds.
I occasionally run into problems with JS weird parsing rules. My favorite is:
Which does not return. It returns undefined.Typescript helps a lot with that. A linter will probably flag it as well. Still, JS went way out of its way to accept just about anything, whether it makes sense or not.