[njharman]

Opposite. I can't stand languages that require programmer to do menial tasks such as add additional punctuation to indicate blocks that are clear from indentation. Or for end of line when there's a carriage return.

And that produce visual noise and based on many formatting standards enforce wasted vertical space (curly on its own line) being able to see more code on screen without scrolling.

I have to type that whutespace. Whitespace indentation and line breaks are the most significant visual elements. Why would the compiler ignore that?