This is an interesting exercise, but most of the suggestions on the page are just cosmetic, and do not address the fundamental challenge of C++ - perhaps the bi

This is an interesting exercise, but most of the suggestions on the page are just cosmetic, and do not address the fundamental challenge of C++ - perhaps the biggest divergence between Python and C++: A core design principle of C++ is that you do not pay (performance-wise) for what you don't use. This leads to all sorts of nasty things like object slicing, law of big 3, template preprocessor hell just to get pseudo-generics. A core design principle of Python is that you should pay the minimum cognitive burden for what you are not using. Don't care to customize object dispatch? Then you don't need to know about descriptors and __slots__ just to write a simple class. No amount of syntactic cargo culting is going to bridge this gap. The whitespace and lack of semicolons is not why people embrace Python. Just as removing integer types and sensible scoping from C++ won't make it Javascript, replacing braces with tabs is not going to make it Python.