The purpose of parenthesis is too let the language know when the condition ends, and the statement begins. In a language with mandatory curly braces, the brace does that job already.

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It does, doesn't it? I wish there was some sort of compat layer which would allow to natively use python libraries in Javascript

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Huh? Rust, Go, Swift and probably many more languages does the same.

In pascal you can call function that has no arguments without parentheses: writeln;

if x = 5 then writeln;