I like this. I also like yaml, I’ve had very few issues with it and it’s nicer to work with than json.

Json’s lack of support for trailing commas and comments makes it very annoying for everyday use.

Significant white-space is bullshit and i will die on this hill.

You’re going to indent your code anyway, so why not let the indentation carry meaning?

Because I am not counting white space when I read. Or should we just write machine code straight away?

Not sure I’m following the jump from significant white space to machine code. How are those related?

Human and machine read differently. If you ignore that (in case wity indentation), then why bother with writing human-friendly form of code, when what is going to be really executed is something else?

If anything, that sounds like an argument in favor of significant indentation, not against it. Humans and machines read differently, yes, which is why we tend to add whitespace and indentation to code even for programming languages where it’s not significant. We do that expressly because it makes the code more human-friendly, so it’s quite the opposite of ignoring their differences.

No, it is an argument against it. We indent code so that it is more comfortable to read it, not in order to make it easier to understand