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raising the skill requirement to contribute (you have to know JS better than average to never use a semicolon, and do so correctly)

Great idea! I propose some additional strategies for pruning the contributor pool:

- All numbers in hexadecimal (every idiot knows decimal!)

- No strict equality tests (too easy to reason about & uses extra character!)

- Variable names must consist entirely of unicode ideographs (even my grandmother knows ASCII!)

That should keep the idiots at bay!



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