I always was strictly against whitespace in Python because it can lead to all kinds of weird errors. But Nim (and also Haskell) has static types so most wrong indentations are caught by the compiler. That's really nice to have.
If this happens again it deserves its own blog post describing the situation carefully!
People that complain about whitespace haven't used Python much, it's a dead giveaway.
And yet, the benefits are enormous, I've probably skipped typing a hundred thousand redundant braces since then, and ended up with more readable code.
IDE's handle both scenarios. My IDE largely remembers how far in I should be indented and if I use a brace it closes it for me.
If I program in a plain text-editor like Notepad - I still don't mess up my indenting any more than I forget to close a brace or parenthesis. It's a silly argument formed from speculation and "but its possible!" rather than reality.
Quite the opposite. Whitespace for me is a godsend - all code is formatted the same way and I rarely if ever have to deal with whitespace related errors. In fact I don't even know what whitespace related errors are - you'd have to explain what you mean.
On the other hand, when programming in JavaScript I seem to spend all my time trying to work out issues related to brackets and code structure - very very annoying and silly - can't computers work brackets out, do we need to tell them what the code structure is?