[Squonk42]

Why are semicolons mandatory? Wouldn't be cleaner without this restriction, like in Kotlin?

[verdagon]

A valid question! Semicolons and other forms of syntactic redundancy often enable much better error messages. We're leaning towards keeping them in Vale.

However, we can always change our minds later and make them optional, so it seems wise to just require them for now and revisit later.