you may feel they are unnecessary, other people like it, and it definitely isn't from the age of punch cards. I like to watch people code on twitch, and the am

you may feel they are unnecessary, other people like it, and it definitely isn't from the age of punch cards. I like to watch people code on twitch, and the amount of times I see people get confused about what a particular closing bracket is closing is pretty regular. The other thing it allows is you can jump to all the closing tokens for IF statements in a file really easily. Way easier to write tools to extract certain things out of code files as well. While I don't mind curly brace blocks, I can definitely see the advantages of distinct tokens for different types of blocks