Regarding the hate for parens: rainbow coloring helps out big time. When each pair of parens has it's own color, it is very easy to see exactly how they are gro

Regarding the hate for parens: rainbow coloring helps out big time. When each pair of parens has it's own color, it is very easy to see exactly how they are grouped in the more complex statements. For Vim, that would be Rainbowtags. It's actually an improvement for any languages, imo.