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Re:Nim in 2020: A Short Recap by girvo on Thursday December 31, 2020 @08:23AM (#25592413)
So I used to totally agree with you... then I used Nim in anger. Honestly the whole white space thing barely even registered in the end for me!
Re:Nim in 2020: A Short Recap by lostdog on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:10PM (#25595983)
I worked in Python for a while, and once you have a production bug because the indentation shifted around on one line when you moved some code around, you start to get really cautious and nervous every time you cut-and-paste. I much prefer C++ and Java now, where I can just paste and reformat without fear.

(I still use Python, and I'm still going to try Nim some day. Syntactic whitespace is a pain, and, in my opinion, a bad design decision, but it isn't everything.)