[JoeAltmaier]

Fundamentally, the problem is that braces are needed at all. Humans are bad at matching them up, so they don't match the humans' intention when indenting. Confusion.

It's all backward. The IDE should SHOW you the blocks somehow (background tone changes etc), and let you edit the blocking explicitely. If they look wrong, you select and hit a key. Now you're in agreement with the compiler.

[MrBuddyCasino]

Yeah, this is one thing Python got right. You should indent anyway, and then the curly braces aren't needed anymore.

I don't know what the point is in pretending IDEs or advanced text editors don't exist.