The reason I dislike the missing of semicolons and brackets is because it causes bugs (that’s more of a problem of missing braces to declare the scope of your code) and also takes away control from the programmer.
Missing braces:
I had more than one instance where I accidentally deleted the intendation in a python script that caused undefined behaviour in my code and it took quite a lot of time to track that down. If the programming language would have forced me to properly defined the scope of my code by introducing brackets, that bug would have never been possible.
Semicolons:
The main thing I like about semicolons is that it allows you to properly space out your code over multiple lines for visual clarity. E.g.:
void my_function(int arg1, int arg2, int arg3){
//some code
}
int main(){
my_function(
1, //arg1
3, //arg2
8 //arg3
);
}
Python should allow this too, since the arguments are being defined inside brackets, but other languages have no similar functionality (e.g. shell, but that is a little bit unfair, since you can’t even specify arguments) forcing you to put everything into a single line.
Rust even allows you to leave out the semicolon on the last statement of a code scope in order to return the result of the statement:
fn main() {
let condition = true;
let number = if condition { 5 } else { 6 };
//number turns into 5, since the value is being returned due to the missing semicolon.
println!("The value of number is: {number}");
let number = if condition { 5; } else { 6; }
// this should return null (if it even compiles)
}
I absolutely fucking hate that argument, because men use it to prevent changes that would make prosecution of actual rapists easier. I understand the fear, but how often does it happen, that false charges get pressed onto man and how often does it happen that rapists do not get prosecuted for their crime? We all know someone who has been targeted by rape/sexual assault, but hardly anyone knows a rapist and even less a person that has been falsely accused of it.