[TeffenEllis]

I think what's more confusing than ASI are the mental gymnastics developers go through to justify typing semicolons daily, rather than installing a linter once, or reading the ASI spec.

Python and Ruby support semicolons for occasional statement termination; why is JavaScript any different? I can't help but think "semicolons by default" would be regarded as ritualistic if the practice was never popularized in the first place.

[kurtisc]

Does pressing a key on the home row really require a lot of justification? A project doesn't care how effective my tooling is if the next person doesn't have it.