What a child... Has anyone read the GitHub style guide? 'Do your best to never use a semicolon. This means avoiding them at line breaks and avoiding multi-statement lines.'
Grow up Crockford. Do research before you post. Stop assuming because you supposedly once knew how to do something, you still do, and always will. Times change.
However, this is all very exciting. It gives Twitter, or whatever other start up, an opportunity to replace an outdated piece of software by a nut case!
Why do you believe the github style guide to be the authoritative source for JavaScript style? There is no benefit for avoiding use of semicolons other than not writing semicolons, whereas there are several detriments for their omission.
> It gives Twitter, or whatever other start up, an opportunity to replace an outdated piece of software by a nut case!
I don't know where this ad-hominem is coming from, but Douglas Crockford is hardly a nutcase.
If people hate semi-colons with such a passion, why not simply use coffeescript and be done with it instead of depending on butterflies flapping their wings...
Grow up Crockford. Do research before you post. Stop assuming because you supposedly once knew how to do something, you still do, and always will. Times change.
However, this is all very exciting. It gives Twitter, or whatever other start up, an opportunity to replace an outdated piece of software by a nut case!