Author here. I've used plenty of editors that 'know' how to manage parenthesis. And editors that did even more than that, like auto-completing snippets and movi

Author here. I've used plenty of editors that 'know' how to manage parenthesis. And editors that did even more than that, like auto-completing snippets and moving around the cursor. It's all great, and I too think paredit is great! But these are all techniques for improving the "writing new code" experience, which is the minority of work that anyone does. Nobody writes perfect code the first time. And these conveniences for writing new code don't help much with the majority of my time, which is spent editing, deleting, and refactoring code - and understanding at first glance the structure of a program from its punctuation. So, sure - editors can do more and I'm hopeful about them. But I don't think that 'automatic bracket insertion' actually fixes this problem. I think it makes the task of writing code seem easier but doesn't help at all with the hard parts.