My buddy the CS major casually dropped why he hates curly braces

I was complaining about a Python project and he said 'that's why I use languages that don't rely on them for scope.' It hit different because he wasn't being elitist, he just genuinely finds braces confusing for beginners. Has anyone else had a language click better once you stopped fighting the syntax?

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kevin_hernandez8311d ago

Saw a blog post somewhere that said curly braces are basically like having to learn a second keyboard layout before you can type. Makes sense though, Python's indentation just flows more natural once you get used to it.

paulb9811d ago

My first programming language was C so I was all about those curly braces for years. But after switching to Python for a side project last month I totally get it now, the indentation just disappears into the flow.