My experience is that Python handles this wonderfully on the reading side, because code will always be consistently formatted.<p>But on the writing side, it&#x27;s harder (impossible?) to have tools that format an entire file, because without braces, various things could be at different levels of indentation. You have to indent as you go, and changing the level of indentation can be a little painful.<p>In curly brace languages, you can sometimes work very fast by crapping things onto the page and then formatting the entire file.<p>I don&#x27;t know which I absolutely prefer, but there is a tradeoff to whitespace based blocks. That said, I think C &amp; Java suffer for the combination of optional braces and lack of a standard format tool.