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Indentation-based syntax

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Indentation-based syntax, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 3 complaints

Hard to edit indentation-based code; braces make scanning and vim-style navigation easier2026-08-02
Extracting code to a REPL causes confusing formatting errors and makes finding issues harder2026-05-27
Can't tell from a line alone whether an expression is complete; must compare indentation with following lines2019-07-08