[wowoc]

Well, that's a more general problem with indentation based languages, but Python users seem to be happy. It's a tradeoff, code that's (arguably) more pleasant to read, for a bit more work while writing it.

It's true that gofmt-like tool would be less beneficial, but I think that most of the things you've mentioned could be helped with editor/IDE support, e.g. indent-aware paste, block navigation and so on.

[nilliams]

Yep this, basically the things gpp mentioned just aren't problems day-to-day for Python developers.

And the 'halfway down the 1000 line file' one was just plain silly.

[NateDad]

Why is it silly?

[nilliams]

Straw man basically. Developers shouldn't ever be working with 1000 line files, except as build artefacts.