I'm a fan of both but when I started with Python, after years of PHP, it took me a minute to get the indentation and line breaks in the right places so it would

I'm a fan of both but when I started with Python, after years of PHP, it took me a minute to get the indentation and line breaks in the right places so it would execute a simple script. This may have improved but it was really hard to find where I did something wrong with format and with PHP I could easily spot a missing $ or ;. Going back to PHP, the $ and ; made things look messy at first. With either, if you stick around long enough it just becomes muscle memory and you don't even consider it overhead of writing code and your eyes adjust to the syntax. I find it a non-issue these days.