Y'know, I used to feel the same way. But using a decently configured Vim or Atom, programming in Nim (which is white-space sensitive) has been perfectly fine. Not good, not bad, it just _is_. The language itself is great, too.

If you're still getting stuck up on semantic whitespace in 2015, you must not use any of:

+ Python + Haskell + Javascript + Go + Ruby + Bash

Anything else I'm missing? Whitespace is useful. Figure out how to view it in your editor and move on already. This is so far beyond bike-shedding it's just a depressing comment on how much programmers obsess on syntax.

Line endings are a different question than indentation.

Language design decisions do matter. "Figure out how to view it in your editor" doesn't do one lick to address the problems of semantic indentation.

God no. Most of those hold no value or any interest for me. Bash only because it is the default shell. And thanks for pointing out why I should avoid the others.

Have you never looked at a diff? Massive whitespace changes hide real changes. Next someone will say "Git has a -w option". To which I say "A diff without whitespace changes in those languages would be useless". I can't test it, apply it, or otherwise use it without re-indenting the source myself.

Significant-whitespace languages don't introduce any additional whitespace changes because most people keep their code in whitespace-agnostic languages neatly indented anyway.

Then I guess you don't work on any projects that only want to see non-whitespace changes.

Swift, where semicolons are optional unless you have multiple statements on the same line.

Also C++, C99, and Java if you count // comments.

? How does Javascript use semantic whitespace?

I'm not sure of the details but surely the answer involves semi-colon insertion.

That's the only one I'm aware of.

Put me in the "if that makes a difference in your code, you're doing it wrong" camp (and yes, I recognize that not everyone agrees, and that argument has already been had too many times).

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I also don't see the interest, but with a decent editor this shouldn't be a problem. For the little Python I write, Vim takes care of formatting the code.

Wouldn't you agree that the code inspection should be easy enough to be performed without fancy tools? It's good to empower yourself with tools to make oneself more efficient but I can't see any compelling reason for us to rely on them so much that we could not do without!