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by loloquwowndueo 175 days ago
Indentation is there regardless, and is increasingly enforced by format-checking tooling which is more commonly an out-of-the-box offering for many ecosystems (gofmt).

So why not make it have syntactical meaning since it’s already there in 99% of cases?

It does feel weird at first but honestly it’s not something you’ll think about much after a while.