Debating Syntax is Dumb

[gon782]

@idlehands

Having a reading disability, syntax makes a very big difference for me. A few notes about trying to read code:

• Having non-word characters to make changes of context is huge. As in paranthesis around arguments.
• Lots of nested {} are a struggle.
• Nested flow control is hard
• do/end vs {} is very helpful
• I’m finally training my brain to read anonymous functions correctly after adopting the formatted that removes parens around the arguments
• pipes allowing code on multiple lines is really big

I’m sure there is plenty more. Elixir is genuinely easier for me to read than a lot of code. Good thing I really like it, too.

This is really interesting. How do you find indentation based scope delimiters?