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?

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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?

at the closing curly?

Programmers look at the indentation.

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?