What's stopping you from writing your Rust like this?

You could say they have rewritten the joke in Rust

To me it just looks like you do not need the braces at all

A funny, but incredibly subtle joke to do would be to do a post like this, but get the indentation subtly wrong somewhere, so something that's supposed to be inside a loop is outside according to indentation, but is inside according to braces.

Same. Until you notice the column of curly braces and semi colons in the right margin.

I'm going to write a tool that automatically adds the braces and semicolons to the column as you edit the code.

I will call it rustfml

Can't you fix the default format to this?

My eyes!

Why would that cause the same feeling?

More like a scratch you just can't itch.

The closest thing I've seen is Combobulate

If you do that, you lose formatting and comments every time you load the source from disk

I dislike Python as well, but it has it place. I only use it for quick code tests before doing it in other languages.

In Rust and lots of other languages you have to end each statement with a semicolon. The semi colon is usually placed right after the statement, but in this example there's indentation after each statement before the semicolon so they're all aligned.

There's also the curly brackets, they're padded in the same way, but those usually define where a scope (block) starts and ends making it even worse.

Look at the right side of the code editor