Comment by 12_throw_away

I wish there were even more of this sort of thing, even though I'm an anti-braces zealot - it's crazy to me that, here in 2024, code is still so tightly linked to specific textual representations. Maybe there's an alternate reality where IDEs and development tooling got better and better post-smalltalk/lisp, instead of ... whatever we have now. Maybe we'd have editors and viewers where you could configure the syntax however you wanted. And sure, it would be persisted to disk in some canonical representation, maybe text, maybe a DB ... but you'd never need to worry about it, because all your tooling (VCS, diffs, refactoring tools, etc) would work with the AST, and you'd never need to worry about tabs or spaces ever again.