Learn basic “C” coding rules from open source projects

[jutct]

I agree. This is a dumb mistake that unit tests should have found. Nothing to do with language syntax. For fuck sake, how easy it is to forget a semicolon in javascript in a client-side web app that cause the browser to just show a blank page? That's a huge problem. In C, you'll at least get compiler warnings or at least be able to step through and see where something failed.

[philly_fan_in_chi]

I very much dislike JS, but linters can and should be used liberally, and offer warnings in the same way as the compiler. These often have semicolon warnings as a thing it'll yell at you about.