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by const_cast 379 days ago
> but significant whitespace makes for excellent syntax with no downsides.

Biggest downside: copying and pasting code breaks in a lot of apps.

Jira, Teams, and probably some others, eat whitespace for breakfast. So if a coworker gives me a code snippet they have to manually edit it (often not even possible) OR I have to, or it won't even run. And since the whitespace is significant, it can't be auto formatted.

Whereas with C# you can copy the most fucked up snippet, put it in your editor and boom - auto-formatted and compiles.