[Ontonator]

On the point about semicolons in JavaScript, the logic I’ve heard is that if you consistently use semicolons, you can have a linter warn you if there is an inferred semicolon, so you know if you have made a mistake. If you don’t use semicolons and accidentally produce code with an inferred semicolon that should not be there, then there is no way for any tool to warn you. (Well, no general way; in your example with the return, many linters would warn you about unreachable code.)

[epolanski]

I never use semicolons and I never have these issues.

Even in the rarest cases I maybe had them like when copy pasting in the wrong place they were so rare that I don't think it's worth the additional noise of semicolons.

[leonsegal]

There are 3 major footguns with automatic semicolon insertion iirc (one involves having the return statement on its own line. As long as you know them all it's fine I guess, but not my taste.