I will give you that for highly specialized domains, those lists would look different (eg in some niche OCaml would be high while Rust would be low, or R high where C++ is lower down the list) , but it is telling that Scala comes in at #32 when compared to other languages that, I think, occupy a similar problem space.
Of course, Python is #1 on the TIOBE list (and have had a strong showing for years), which I ascribe to the overall productivity and wide application domain fit. So, whether or not white space is objectively bad (for any language or only some languages), it hasn’t detracted so much from Python’s popularity.
I will give you that for highly specialized domains, those lists would look different (eg in some niche OCaml would be high while Rust would be low, or R high where C++ is lower down the list) , but it is telling that Scala comes in at #32 when compared to other languages that, I think, occupy a similar problem space.
Of course, Python is #1 on the TIOBE list (and have had a strong showing for years), which I ascribe to the overall productivity and wide application domain fit. So, whether or not white space is objectively bad (for any language or only some languages), it hasn’t detracted so much from Python’s popularity.