As a matter of personal preference, hoisted curlies drive me insane.
For instance, I am among those who are annoyed when seeing lines of text wasted with the opening curly brace, reducing thus the number of useful text lines visible on the screen.
Probably it is best to use an automatic code formatter and format the code according to personal preferences while working with it and then reformat it according to project rules when committing the code to the repository.
Conversely, I'm one of the people who are annoyed when the tokens that represent a block of code don't form a vertical line, making it much harder to see "at a glance" where blocks begin and end.
> Probably it is best to use an automatic code formatter and format the code according to personal preferences while working with it and then reformat it according to project rules when committing the code to the repository.
At the end of the day, I'm convinced there is no "right" way to do this. Everybody has their preferences, and who's to say that one set of preferences is objectively more meaningful than another? You care about wasted vertical space, I don't. I care about tokens lining up, you (probably?) don't (at least not as much as I do). But neither of us is really "right" or "wrong".
I want it all. No lines wasted, uniform indentation, dedicated indentation character.
Python with tab for indentation feels right to me.
I also like to set a vertical highlight in my editor to vertically delinate indentation levels.
if (condition) { // <- hoisted curly
do_it();
}