Punctuation, or lack of it, can change the meaning in programming languages too.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/codebyte-why-are-explicit-se...

Yeah, but no one would remove punctuation from a program because they think it looks nicer.

> Javascript developers

Oh, of course.

I remove semicolons from JS b/c I feel like they are a bit of a hack. Except where it's required by the language (for loops, which are becoming less used quite rapidly), your code generally shouldn't be so complex as to require semicolons for readability.

Having said that, I've been introducing a lot more colons, since I use TypeScript.

I was referring to punctuation that is, in some way, actually necessary. No one ends their lines with semicolons in python although it's valid. The rules when the interpreter will "insert" them are obvious. Not so in Javascript.

Don't forget gofmt.

That's a mostly invalid counter-objection. Technically true, but with context its usually recoverable.