The thing is, those of us who prefer braces or other syntax elements also indent. It's not either/or. I want the redundancy. I can more easily see how things line up.
> With braces, you have to search for the opening and closing brace
It's probably been 20-30 years since I used an editor that couldn't highlight the matching brace, and that wouldn't show me which opening brace the closing brace I just put down matches up with.
But it's just been a day since the last cut and paste "accident" left me with a badly mis-indented piece of code... which I happily could auto-format back to sanity with a couple of keystrokes because the indentation was not all the editor had to go by.
> With braces, you have to search for the opening and closing brace
It's probably been 20-30 years since I used an editor that couldn't highlight the matching brace, and that wouldn't show me which opening brace the closing brace I just put down matches up with.
But it's just been a day since the last cut and paste "accident" left me with a badly mis-indented piece of code... which I happily could auto-format back to sanity with a couple of keystrokes because the indentation was not all the editor had to go by.