[Pxtl]

Don't the first 3 apply just as well to python? It compiles fast, and is duck-typed so interfaces are always there and implicit, and the indent-based blocking ends many arguments about formatting.

[dekhn]

the difference is that if you're not careful when you cut-paste indented blocks in python, you can easily change logic.

[mau]

If you cut and paste probably the misaligned indentation is the least problem. Cut and paste should be avoided if it's not done during a refactoring (so actual moving of code for better design).

Beginners usually think Python strong indentation is a weakness of the language. I actually find C++ freedom being more error prone:

    if (a < b);
        a = b

It's a not very frequent bug, but when it happens it takes you hours to spot. ;)

[maxiepoo]

Yes and in Go (and hopefully all curly-brace languages of the future) this is actually a syntax error, you need the braces:

  if (a < b) {
     a = b;
  }

[TylerE]

The thing I don't get...if braces are mandatory (Good), why keep the now completely, unambiguously, irrelevant () around the cond?

[kyrra]

If you ran the code through gofmt, it would remove the () around the cond for you. I code go in SublimeText with GoSublime. On every save it runs the file through gofmt and reformats it for me. Keeps my code looking pretty with very little effort.

[wtbob]

You don't need those parens in Go, and go fmt will in fact remove them/

[CasualSuperman]

They're actually not required in Go.

[gnur]

And you don't need the semicolons!

[dekhn]

This would never happen to me because I frequently format my doc, and it wouldn't be indented.

[Artemis2]

Python executes, it does not compiles.

EDIT: Whoops, it's actually compiled into bytecode then executed by the VM.

[Pxtl]

it's generous to call the CPython interpreter a VM - the binary encoding of Python isn't some crazy IL bytecode, its' really just python-as-binary. Language constructs converted into opcodes, strings with pre-calculated hashes, and local variables within a scope become a sort of vector... but otherwise, it's a prettymuch 1:1 mapping between Python language constructs and the bytecode form.

[runjake]

As the_paul said, this is incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)#...

[the_paul]

This is not true.

[mimighost]

It actually "compiles" into bytecode, then consumed by the interpreter.