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Sorry you’re right, it would have been Paredit.

I guess my point is that syntax that works very well with a correctly configured editor used by someone who knows what they’re doing is going to have a higher barrier to entry than a language that can be easily edited in Notepad.

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I don't know of any language that can be easily edited in Notepad.

Not even English.

Lisp is no harder to edit in notepad than any other language. It is just a text editor and lisp source is just text. And paredit is a misfeature for most people, turn it off. That should have been the real takeaway. It is not part of a ”correctly configured editor” and it isn’t installed or activated by default anyways so is easy to avoid.

Yeah, all you have to do is keep track of the number of closing parens in your head.

It’s a lot easier when the editor highlights matching pairs.

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