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manojlds 3 hours ago

Python, but good.

steve1977 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So, without significant indentation?

tyre 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oh nooooo, they fucked it up too. Why would someone make a language that’s whitespace sensitive? It’s confounding.

BeetleB 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To weed out programmers who don't indent.

grim_io 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I never understood this.

What kind of special whitespace requirements do people have?

43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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syrrim 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why would someone make a language where the programmer and the interpreter have two different ways of figuring out where blocks start and end?

ioasuncvinvaer an hour ago | parent [-]

at the closing curly?

syrrim an hour ago | parent [-]

Programmers look at the indentation.

larodi an hour ago | parent [-]

this discussion is so dated...

	▲	syrrim 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		llms prefer indents too

mplewis 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's really not that bad

Fraterkes 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Significant indentation is why people love python. Can 2 billion people be wrong?

	▲	ioasuncvinvaer an hour ago \| parent [-]
		yes

usef- an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I didn't realise people still complained about this in 2026. When has it ever been an issue in use?

swiftcoder 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, it feels like "Python, but aiming at a completely different vertical that values native compilation and a borrow checker"? Which is not quite the same thing