[datanecdote]

Preach, brother.

I’m cautiously optimistic that JAX (or something like JAX) can save the python programming language from stagnation by essentially building a feature-complete reimplementation of the language with JIT and autograd baked into the core. I’m praying that Google diverts like 10% of TF’s budget to JAX.

That way I don’t have to learn to love a bunch of unnecessary semi colons and “end”s littering up my beautiful zero-indexed code ;-)

[bieganek]

Julia code almost never has semicolons. Semicolons can be used at the REPL to suppress printing, but actual Julia code does not normally use semicolons.

I personally like the "end"s because I like the symmetry and they're prettier than curly braces. Also, there are some syntax color themes that color the "end"s in a darker color in order to de-emphasize the "end"s, which can be nice depending on your taste.

[datanecdote]

That was mostly meant as a joke, thus the “;-)”

I don’t really care much about syntax choices, but my small complaint about “end” is that it takes up a line which reduces the amount of business-logic code I can fit on one screen, especially if you ever get into lots of nested loops and conditionals.

[Sukera]

To each their own, but I usually try to refactor when I hit too many nested loops or branched statements - it's usually a sign of missing some abstraction or trying to be too clever.

[datanecdote]

@Sukera

Fair, but, if I break up all the loops and if statements into functions, those functions still have “end”s