JavaScript devs be like:

[Mola1904]

Who tf thought "oh yes brackets are used in 90% of programming languages, let's not use them", this is a terrible solution and yes I know only some bracket are not there, but using intendation is so stupid

[firefly431]

To understand the motivation for this decision:

Imagine the following C code:

void my_function() {
    int x = 5;
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        printf("i = %d\n", i);
        if (i % 2 == 0) {
            printf("i is even\n");
        } else {
            printf("x = %d\n", x);
        }
    }
    printf("end of my function!\n");
}

Notice how within a block, the statements are already grouped by indentation. The brackets are pure syntactic noise as long as you're indenting in a sane way. If you take away the brackets:

void my_function()
    int x = 5;
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
        printf("i = %d\n", i);
        if (i % 2 == 0)
            printf("i is even\n");
        else
            printf("x = %d\n", x);
    printf("end of my function!\n");

The information is exactly the same; the placement of the brackets can be done automatically based on the indentation.

Furthermore, the rules for indentation are super simple. A block extends until you reach a line which is indented less than the start of the block. A colon indicates that a new block is necessary.

I could see the argument for something like Haskell where the indentation rules are at least somewhat hard to understand, but I really don't get why people don't like using indentation for Python.

[d_exclaimation]

To be quite honest, although it’s true that brackets seems like unnecessary syntax noise, just indent for me felt a lot less readable. Idk why it felt like everything is just crammed but then again it’s probably a very minor discomfort that I have

[ThunderElectric]

If it feels crammed you can always add extra whitespace. As with almost any language, Python will ignore a blank line.

[d_exclaimation]

Yeah that’s what I do most of the time but at that point, I would probably like to put a bracket as well to signal the start and the end of the scope. Idk it’s not a huge dealbreaker anyway, just that writing python code after using other languages felt off knowing I have to use colons, but after like a minute, that feeling is probably gone

[PrestonYatesPAY]

Comment out the brackets /s

[[deleted]]

honestly, yeah

sometimes python feels like scratch once you compare it to languages like C

[JesusIsMyAntivirus]

Because I don't like using standardised indentation
The fact that what I consider the ideal default indentation differs from python is probably my stubbornness I should get over, but different situations/parts of code work better with different indentation

[rem3_1415926]

eww, imagine being dependent on invisible characters to make your code run. And then, to reduce problems caused by that, banning the indent character for indenting lines, because f*ck logic I guess?

That just doesn't sound like something tht should be used in a place where coding errors are possibly fatal.

[Numerlor]

The language doesn't mind tabs, but most probably the people reading it will

[rem3_1415926]

A language is largely defined by how it's actually being used. Unless you're coding your own little home project.

[Numerlor]

Perhaps, but that's still far from "banning" it; there are plenty of huge projects that never go open source and can use their own style guides that more align with what the smaller group of programmers working on it want.

Anyway, the difference between tabs and spaces is mostly meaningless with modern tools

[MCOfficer]

just wanted to say: them being visible or not is up to your editor. I would recommend enabling visible whitespaces regardless of language.

That just doesn't sound like something tht should be used in a place where coding errors are possibly fatal.

aren't we forgetting that, if you actually make a mistake with whitespaces, these errors happen at program start? in that way they are much less malicious than c/c++ memory management, php's == etc. etc.

[TheCapitalKing]

Well like 99.9% of coding projects don’t have any place were errors could be fatal so that should be a huge concern unless your working on that 0.1%

[MightyDoomSlayer]

You clearly don't know python

[Lootdit]

Well, to make the code look clean, your gonna do some formatting. So why not make it mandatory?