> * This makes life harder in a modern world of various operating systems and high distribution. Some means of distribution mutilate white space. XML language d

> * This makes life harder in a modern world of various operating systems and high distribution. Some means of distribution mutilate white space. XML language design spent enormous effort considering for this. Distributing source code with significant white space seems like a totally solved problem to me. When has this come up for you? > Line termination differs by OS. Now it’s largely just posix vs Windows, but there used to be even more variance and there could be more in the future. Why would there by more types of line terminators in the future? We already have two ways to do it, which is one too many. Who would add another? And if they did, why would all the text editors and software out there in the world be expected to adopt it? > * code beautification is also highly subjective. Everybody has different opinions on beauty and easy to read. Providing the means to allow developers to exercise those opinions dynamically and automatically makes people happy. So long as it’s just vanity the code stills executed and reads the same way. Personally, I don't care about people's subjective opinions or what makes them happy. I just want to be able to easily understand what the code does. I find it easier to understand code when it is formatted in a way that I'm familiar with. If each programmer has their own little formatting idiolect, that makes it harder for me to read their code. So, I think it's great when standardized formatting is built into languages, either with formatters (like go and elixir have) or by having a syntax that enforces uniform formatting (as is the case here).