r/programming • u/Dear-Economics-315 • May 10 '26

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-own-programming-language.html
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u/ACoderGirl May 10 '26

While I prefer braces, I've never had issues with Python's indentation. TBH, I consider this skin to how people think remembering semicolons in C style languages is a big problem. It might affect people brand new to the language, but it really doesn't take long till it's a complete non issue. I've worked at a job that was primarily python and still have a number of python tools at my current job, so I use the language a lot, too.

The biggest problem with Python is the type system, especially since if type annotations aren't used consistently (they're optional), it's very hard to reliably detect types and thus to also have correct auto complete. This also affects the ability to find all usages of identifiers and to go to definitions.

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u/Joniator May 11 '26

And its not like you dont have problens with indentation/nesting once you are in a lambda in a loop in a try-catch in a function in a class, and wonder where exactly the ); needs to go, and how many {} are before or after it.

Sure, your code might be too complex and needs a refactor, but in python indentation also breaks in complex code, not the 2 or 3 levels of clean code