Well, he didn't say very much. As one of the answerers said, it was kind of an offhand remark in the Q&A section at the very end. But you do make a good point.

More discussion of this at the JavaScript reddit: reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/h21vr/…

Hm. I'm pretty familiar with jQuery, but not very familiar at all with YUI or any of the other JS frameworks. So maybe I should have asked, what is it about YUI, Prototype, etc. that make them good for building large, scalable web apps? Instead of asking what jQuery doesn't have...

context? Depending on the language, those might actually be two different things.

No one can ever force you to work without version control. Use whatever you want (I'm an increasingly big fan of git, personally) on your own machine, and gradually other developers will follow along. Hopefully.

The worst part of this is that if you do it really really well, you'll get almost no credit. "Yup, it works exactly the same as it did before."

@Peter that's a terrible reason, unless what you really mean is "Douglas Crockford says the semicolon is a good idea because [...] and I agree with him." My personal reason is something like, "Douglas Crockford says to use the semicolon, and I don't remember why exactly, but I remember it made sense when I read it, so I've tried to adopt the habit."