While mildly amusing, this whole semicolon obsession that's sprung to the fore this past week is ridiculous. It was silly and inconsequential when it started and it's even sillier now.
In any other context, building what is essentially a Turing machine with a few symbols, might qualify as a clever hack which helps folks step outside their ISO-latin1 mindset, but coming as it does on the heels of this controversy it just feels mean.
I find it hard to disagree with him. Eichs has admitted ASI was a mistake, every half-decent JS tutorial states unequivocally "use semicolons"... if you don't want semi-colons, don't use JS.
I find semicolon hilarious. We need to lighten up!
Please will everybody stop being silly.
We all have serious businesses to run, enabling people to find video of cats wearing mittens, making photographs square, all important stuff. So stop having fun and get back to work, those augmented media experiences wont write themselves you know.