Who brought the idea of using semicolon to represent the end of expression

If you couldn't sleep for a week because of a missing ; then there's something very wrong with your toolchain. Or you.

The only time this is acceptable is when you've used “;” instead of ";"
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But then your editor / ide doesn't detect bad characters either.
Get a better editor.

@C0D4 While that prank with the similar-looking-but-different character seems kind of fun, I don't see it working in real life. Even if your editor/IDE didn't issue warnings, you'd assume that for anything serious you'd have Git (or other VCS) and that every commit is reviewed and approved as working.

i'm sorry, is this some plain-text joke i'm too IDE to understand?

Or… use a better language that doesn’t require the ceremony of ; at the end of each statement. Like Kotlin or Swift.

How on earth does someone spend six days debugging a missing semicolon error

Well, switch to TypeScript or a language with significant whitespace.

@Oktokolo lack of semicolons and significant whitespace are not necessary related.