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My biggest gripe is that human eyes cannot in fact see invisible coding characters such as tabs and spaces. I cannot abide by python for the same reason.
You can set those things to be visible in many editors. Its ugly tho
Until you're doing an online course in a simplistic web editor. Don't ask me how I know 🥲
How do you... Oh sorry
But yeah that sounds unpleasant
The language should just let me specify which character I want for that. I would use ">".
It would be a compiler directive, I think. Or let me type "end if" and just disregard the coding indentation
That'd be an editor thing rather than a language thing, I would have thought. It's probably configurable in some