Why so many semicolons in JavaScript?

Question

I tend to be a prolific user of semicolons in my JavaScript:

var x = 1;
var y = 2;
if (x==y){do something};

I recently noticed that I was looki

Answer 1

JavaScript requires semicolons. But it does have Automatic Semi-colon Insertion.

The majority of JavaScript programmers are smarter than ASI and prefer to be explicit with their semi colons.