[wrboyce]

The article (justifying not using semicolons) seems like a rant with not real aim, beside "I am right, semicolons are wrong - and I have all these half-baked ideas to back me up".

The author was actually annoying me by the time I reached "It's good coding style".

One example:

> My advice on JSLint: don’t use it. Why would you use it? If you believed that it helps you have less bugs in your code, here’s a newsflash; only people can detect and solve software bugs, not tools. So instead of tools, get more people to look at your code.

Pretty sure lots of people use JSLint, pep8 checkers, gofmt, or whatever the equivalent tool for the language at hand is. They certainly help, one cannot deny that.

Then the author goes on to pick at Crockford for suggesting people space their JS with four spaces… Yep, I'm done.

[martin-adams]

Giving advice to not use JSLint without a real alternative is very naive in my opinion. When I was working with a team of developers with some novice JS developers, JSLint was a godsend to pick up simple, avoidable bugs while enforcing some sanity with regards to code style.

[andypants]

> only people can detect and solve software bugs, not tools

Stupid compilers, they've been doing it wrong this whole time.