> How so?

Well I don’t know what issue you have with whitespace, but the usual complaint is that programs with small typos are syntactically valid but logically incorrect. This is why CoffeeScript became so disliked. A static type checker makes this scenario much less likely since it won’t compile.

I would also add that F# has some indentation rules (“offside rules”) and tabs are disallowed, further shrinking the input space.