[finger]

  if __name__ == "__main__" {
      print_message(10);
  }

This just looks wrong without parenthesis around the conditional statement.

[ufo]

The purpose of parenthesis is too let the language know when the condition ends, and the statement begins. In a language with mandatory curly braces, the brace does that job already.

[paulcole]

I’ve got a side project called Parenthon that I’m going to release soon. Let me know if you want in on the beta!

[kova12]

It does, doesn't it? I wish there was some sort of compat layer which would allow to natively use python libraries in Javascript

[dartos]

https://github.com/extremeheat/JSPyBridge

Happy hacking!

[ComputerGuru]

Welcome to rust!

[apetrovic]

Huh? Rust, Go, Swift and probably many more languages does the same.

[dvh]

In pascal you can call function that has no arguments without parentheses: writeln;

if x = 5 then writeln;