[jaxtellerSoA]

>Which makes the braces redundant at best, noise at worst.

YES!! Every time I try something other than Python that requires braces, I am like "WTF, why do I have to type this extra shit! Such an annoyance."

[peatmoss]

Arguably the lisp family contains the “huggiest” use of characters, but something like Paredit turns those parentheses into something of a turbo-charged way of handling code forms.

But it leads to another problem: hatred of typing commas in non-lisps.