Now, this could be easily solved – by adding the friggin semicolon.

What this furore misses is that the original issue (JSMin failing to minify bootstrap-dropdown.js) was already fixed when the bug was raised [1]. Fixed without adding semicolons. Everyone should be happy with that. Developers of bootstrap got to stick to their "no semicolons" schtick, and the person with the original problem got it fixed. Everyone seems to forget this salient point when they rush in to this debate.

For reference, I sometimes use semicolons in my javascript, sometimes I don't. It depends on context and whether it makes the code more readable. It's not an issue I care enough about to get involved in a holy war, one only marginally more relevant than tabs vs spaces.

[1] https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3057#issuecommen...