Sitting on the bus, having to listen to a guy tell someone how Python's syntax is "clean" due to it not using braces, but formatting. That's not "clean". That's the horrible part about Python.

My typical response, when I can't hold it in, is to say "Whitespace is just braces you can't see"

EXACTLY, which is why it's bad. Something purely visual shouldn't have meaning. It's the Markdown problem.

Interestingly, Markdown has always worked for me, but I came to it as "Woah this is essentially formalised how I always wrote text documents in the past". I can see the parallels though. It's one of the things I adore about Rust - mandatory use of braces on `if` etc.

other than that I love Markdown