Correct me if i'm wrong but it seems to me that there are Zig, Nim, Dart, Carbon, C3, ooc, (maybe Eiffel?) too in this space, and that only counting C/C++ replacements that you can compile in a way or another.
HN crowd would not agree with me, but indentation-based syntax is easier to read, less cluttered and more intuitive than multiple nested ()'s or {}'s . And the success of python, despite it's countless flaws is the proof.
I also like the way Nim with its command calls and so on is even more compact and "to the point" than Python is. Whenever I go back to Python from Nim, I think to myself "Why all this clutter?" :-)
I don't understand how is that an issue, unless you write your code in notepad =).
And even if you do use dumb text editor, you can quickly write code with 1-space indentation and reformat it with nph[0].
There's also a neat trick for people who like C-style languages. If you use sufficiently enough parenthesis and semicolons - you don't need indentation at all:
import os;proc main = (let file = paramstr(1);(for line in file.lines:(echo line; if line == "": return)))
Yeah, bliss-style, you know in docs it isn't made clear that that works but i sensed that would.
> Random thought: it shouldn't be too hard to write a formatting tool that translates braces to indentation and vice versa. But I have yet to see a project like this for Nim.
It's a hour-long "project" if you don't care about how to treat pragma annotations. I did just that.