Nim programming language finally hit 1.0

[JN]

On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 15:11:57 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Thanks. Yeah, I guessed its goal was to get a more readable 
> notation, but you can get that with any language that doesn't 
> force you to indent. It's common sense that you structure your 
> code visually, but I call it patronizing or nanny syntax, if 
> you are forced to use whitespace, there are many ways to 
> visually structure your code but this should be up to the 
> programmer / team / company.

I guess it's just a matter of preference. Personally, "forced 
indentation" is one of my favourite features of Python. I indent 
all my code blocks in C/C++/D/Java/C# anyway, so braces are 
mostly unnecessary noise to me. Also, I think you underestimate 
how hard it is to find a missing brace in code sometimes. For 
example if you forget a closing brace on a method, and then the 
compiler thinks next methods are inner methods and it breaks on a 
"class Foo" declaration 200 lines of code later.