Indentation-sensitive syntax is totally obsolete in a world with autoformatters. In addition, with this kind of syntax you also lose the ability to have your co

Indentation-sensitive syntax is totally obsolete in a world with autoformatters. In addition, with this kind of syntax you also lose the ability to have your code autoformatted in certain situations. Here's a trivial example to illustrate the point: def example(): x = 5 print("Hello world") What's the mistake here? Depending on whether the print is part of the function, it should either be indented or have a newline before it. The point is you (and any formatting tool) can't know what the horizontal alignment of this code should be just by examining the vertical line order. You can only determine this by knowing (or reanalyzing) the semantics of the code. During a refactor where you're moving around lots of code, this can be a significant PITA. However, in the JS example, function example() { let x = 5 console.log("Hello world") } it's unambiguous what the mistake is because you can determine the correct formatting entirely from the line order, without having to know anything about the code's semantics.