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Re:My Impressions of Gleam by dartos on Saturday January 25, 2025 @09:12AM (#42821750)
I can’t agree with that.

Curly bracket blocks are obviously visible at a glance. If I incorrectly move one around it’s obvious.

If I shift tab a section of python code around, I may be breaking an if state without noticing if I didn’t pay attention to a specific colon on one line.

Imo s-expressions are the easiest to move around, but have the same issue of being hard to scan as tabs.

Re:My Impressions of Gleam by fire_lake on Saturday January 25, 2025 @04:27PM (#42824993)
Whitespace works better in the context of statically typed functional programming, I’ll give you that!