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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defending javascript syntax is not really a valid thing. Even js devs admit it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it perfect? No. Is it inherently better than a language that mistakenly thinks that whitespace is more readable than braces? Yes.

White space delimiting is awful and near impossible to scan in yaml config files, let alone a real programming language.