Nim is mostly inspired by the Pascal/Modula/Oberon family, notably in its type system. The only thing it took from python (arguably) is the indentation-based block syntax.

Programming in Nim actually "feels" quite different from python to me, due to things like a much lighter OOP system (that is somewhat discouraged), the type system, and UFCS, though it "looks" like python at first glance.

Being forced to use a certain style is a good thing. There's less arguing. Haskell is also indentation-based and requires spaces.

You only tend to find that when the style your being forced to use happens to align with your own style, or you don't use the language/tool and therefore aren't affected by it.

In my experience, a lot of programmers will shout from the rooftops about the importance of consistency until the agreed upon standard isn't their standard, at which point consistency is no longer the most important matter at stake.

> You only tend to find that when the style your being forced to use happens to align with your own style

My style is consistency. I'm happy to use any language that enforces that rather than leaving room for bikeshedding, even if the aesthetics aren't my personal favorite. Better than wasting time debating e.g. tabs vs. spaces.

That's not true. For example, I prefer 2-space indents, but I use 4-space indents in Python because that's the convention.

Paired with a characters-per-line limit, 4-space indents forces you to better modularise your so that it doesn't nest too deep (which usually happens when your code is becoming too complex) so I guess that's the wisdom behind the convention.

Do people seriously not adapt to the code style they work with?

I have to deal with different coding styles at every work place, and it takes me all of a week to forget any objections I had to it when I started.

You can very easily configure your editor to convert tabs to spaces.

Braces are unnecessary.

The fact that I only needed to see the first frame of that is probably a sign I've got a problem

Sorry. Couldn't resist ;-)

Go enforces 1TBS over Allman style braces IIRC. I don't really care because I like 1TBS and also don't write Go but it did enstrange parts of the community.