[TylerE]

Shockingly about 98% of the population doesn't find massive mounds of nested parens especially readable.

[AnimalMuppet]

But massive mounds of </this_tag></that_tag></the_other_tag></yet_another_tag> is readable?

I mean, I guess you know what each tag is closing, which is more than you get with ))))...

[chris_wot]

It kind of is, actually.

[thrown_22]

But make the brackets curly and it's fine.

[TylerE]

Curly bracket languages don't require braces around every statement.

If C was written like

    {if {x == 1}{
      {return {x + 1};}
    }

Maybe you'd have a point

[thrown_22]

That's nice, but we're not talking about con, we're talking about json.

Also your syntax is terrible. There are already s-expression versions of c:

    (if (== x 1)
        (return (+ x 1)))