> C# and Nim love that style, and it makes them almost unreadable without a good IDE.

I think a lot of what turns people off to the C# developer experience is not using full-blown Visual Studio. VSCode is great but I would never open csproj or sln files using it unless I needed to manually edit their actual XML contents.

It's not broadly advertised that you can buy a perpetual & fully licensed copy for $500 [0]. No subscription or other cloudy scam stuff is required, although Microsoft's product pages will initially lead you to believe it is.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/visual-studio-professional...