When I was primarily developing in Python I hated using languages with braces, and especially Lua with is then...end blocks, but I think I've come around now.

When I was primarily developing in Python I hated using languages with braces, and especially Lua with is then...end blocks, but I think I've come around now. I appreciate the ability to format things on the next line without worry about how the system will handle it. It's more of a formatting edge case but it comes up enough to be useful. In the end, I feel like it doesn't matter to me nearly as much as other syntax choices in languages, as I've done a lot of Python with no braces and a lot of other stuff with them. I don't even notice anymore (although maybe counterintuitively I find braces a bit more readable now).