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Programmers who care about best practices. Here are a couple of scenarios where not using a semicolon will bite you in the ass.
~95% of the JS code you see on the Web has semicolons. Apparently, a lot of programmers think it's worth that extra keystroke to avoid these types of bugs. I agree with them. The difficulty with programming isn't "Arrgh, there are too many keystrokes, my hands are tired!" It's "Arrgh, HTF did this bug get in here?!?"
I don't even bother typing them because I like having eslint do it for me.
They made it a named function, but this is literally how you format anonymous functions in js, a key feature that usually gets called with stuff like an
onclickoronloadcall in the html domain.