Christian Heilmann has a well reasoned gripe for developers omitting semicolons in JavaScript:
Why would any intelligent person want to make it harder for others to understand what they’ve done, keep booby-traps in their code that will cause errors or deliberately write in a way that might make others stumble? Is this some kind of code-trolling I don’t get?
I have the same exact complaints when people don’t use parentheses in
their Ruby code. You can argue all day about your reasoning but when
you run your code through ruby -w you’ll see all sorts of warnings
about ambiguous code.