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Thats a lot of opening/closing parentheses.

Looks like somebody learned the wrong lesson from lisp.

One word: macros.

Could you count how many you got in your favorite programming language vs Janet/LISP?

My favorite is coffeescript so difference is roughly about a lot.

that's a lot of whitespace

But only on the left side, and a bit in the middle. And you would put it there anyways in nearly all other languages just for readability. ;-)

It looks like a difference of somewhere between 7,239 to 32,767 per screenful of code.