I think that's a poor reason to choose a concrete syntax, and if it really bothers you it's easy enough to have your machine display them however you want. For

I think that's a poor reason to choose a concrete syntax, and if it really bothers you it's easy enough to have your machine display them however you want. For example, I use https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DimParentheses https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DimParentheses to make parentheses unobtrusive. I sometimes want to see them if they're at my cursor position, so I use https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ShowParenMode https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ShowParenMode to highlight that one and its corresponding opener/closer. I use https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit to automatically keep parens/quotes/etc. balanced, move around whole subexpressions, etc. I'm sure there are similar tools for different editors (e.g. there's an incomplete list at https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-parens/blob/master/editors.md https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-parens/blob/m... ) There's a screenshot of this setup at http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-08-29-s_expressions.html http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-08-29-s_expressions.html