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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Explanation for nerdsThe reason is the JS compiler removes whitespace and introduces semicolons only "where necessary".

So writing

function myFn() {
  return true;
}

Is not the same as

function myFn() {
  return 
    true;
}

Because the compiler will see that and make it:

function myFn() { return; true; }

You big ol' nerd. Tee-hee.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

That's terrifying, especially in JS where no type system will fuck you up for returning nothing when you should've returned a boolean.

[-] exu@feditown.com 5 points 1 day ago
[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Not wrong, but funnily enough, it's a linting rule win. I'd go nuts if I didn't have my type checks and my linters. My current L, though, is setting up the projects initially and dealing with the configuration files if I raw dog it, but that's a problem with ESLint configs and the ecosystem as a whole having to deal with those headaches. So in the end, the JS devs got clever and shifted the blame to the tooling. ๐Ÿ˜…

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