…from people who seem to refuse to install paredit or coloring plugins for either? ps lisp syntax ftw, it’s a feature!

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    Who hates s-expressions? They’re elegant as fuck…

    Python, on the other hand, deserves all the hate it gets for making whitespace syntactically significant - I even prefer Go’s hamfisted go fmt approach to a forced syntax to python’s bullshit.

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      I hate em cos regardless of language auto formatter takes care of everything. So now im typing extra characters and fucking shit up and confusing myself when moving code between scopes.

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      I dgaf about indices starting at 0 or 1, I can deal with case-insensitivity, but syntactically significant whitespace drives me up the wall.

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        What’s so hard to understand about it? It’s how you should format your code anyway. Only it’s enforced.

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          sometimes, a script needs to be edited in a plain text editor, without having access to an lsp or any other dev tools.

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          It’s quite often I have to second guess whether the code is correctly intended or not. Is this line supposed to be part of this if block or should I remove that extra indentation? It’s not always entirely obvious. Extra troublesome during refactors.

          In other languages it’s always obvious when a line is incorrectly indented.

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          No it’s how Python wants you to format. Many times I want to separate two logical sections in one function and can’t coz Python go crazy

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            Just put them in separate functions. If you have too many levels of indent, your code is convoluted. Sticking to the line length limit sometimes forces you to write more lines than you’d like to. But it makes everything so much more readable that it’s 100% worth the trade off

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              What if the logic is more readable in one function?

              I use whitespace to make my code more legible, python forces more whitespace consistency but it comes at the cost of limiting the legibility.