Later on the author wants an autoformatter as part of the core language tooling, ala gofmt. I think with autoformatting the code ends up as readable as Python..

Later on the author wants an autoformatter as part of the core language tooling, ala gofmt. I think with autoformatting the code ends up as readable as Python... the code can still be unreadable, but not because of misleading indentation! (Well, I still am offended by the vertical inefficiency of K&R style bracing, but presumably the language wouldn't copy that style...)