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by krapp 3896 days ago
Significant whitespace just swaps out visible "brackets" for invisible ones. It looks nicer, but the basic syntax is still there, and you have to highlight non-printing characters in your text editor to make sure you're not mixing whitespace types anyway.

I understand why people might prefer the whitespace but to me the ambiguity and extra technical debt isn't worth the payoff in readability.

I also like semicolons. Especially in javascript.