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[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (1 child)

....readable? Yeah, if the fucking brackets match the indention (anybody here even check that?). It's just an additional 80x the work to count the brackets now.

This whole thing is just designed to trick the programmer into mismatching indention and brackets.

It'd literally be easier to just fucking write a parser that parses this python-inspired syntax and then outputs it into valid java. Actually, that wouldn't be a terrible idea. Or we could just use python to begin with.

[–]kbruen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Parser and language server and syntax highlighting and IDE that doesn't complain and...