[metaculus]

Though it's an opinion piece and I don't agree with all the points, some I do. The readability issue is real when dealing with any code more than a hundred line, and worse the convention seems to encourage using empty lines very sparingly. The shortcomings came out clearer as I've been teaching someone to program in Python. The subtlety of per-scope indentation really confused her. The concept of a "block" is just not visually clear. Not to mention mixing spaces and tabs by accident. That could halt a new programmer for an hour.