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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

better syntax

Lol I was listening and intently considering what you had to say until this 
  point.
[–] Solumbran 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 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.