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[thomasjo]

Do we really want to use ASI? I'm personally 👎 due to obvious reasons related to well known issues with ASI. Always explicitly using semicolons never causes any problems, but omitting them frequently does, hence I suggest that omitting them is not worth it.

I'll gladly add the semicolons myself.

[mnquintana]

I agree with @thomasjo on this - I desperately want to not use semicolons in JS, but ASI (at least as implemented by every JS interpreter) is janky as hell. One of the cases I'd expect us to run into a lot is with array destructuring, if we did something like:

let [thing, thing2] = arrayOfThings
[thing] = otherArrayOfThing

It would be interpreted as:

let [thing, thing2] = arrayOfThings[thing] = otherArrayOfThing

Which could be avoided by prepending that like with a ;, but that would be awful.

One thing I'd still like to do one of these days would be to write a Babel plugin that does ASI for you with a much better algorithm, but until such a plugin exists, I think our code would be safer and more consistent by just using semicolons everywhere, unfortunately. 😕