Me too, I thought Python was nearly ruling the world… But of course the Curly family 
is large, and the young Rust is even rising.
I used to like curly braces a lot, when I was working with languages that used them.. but now after reading and writing a lot of Fortran I don’t think I like them anymore 
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Curly brackets and everything is a pointer are two reasons I’ve always had a hate-hate relationship with C and all its children. As to readability, that has more to do with organizations or individuals not adopting consistent coding standards and practice and then rigidly applying them across their entire code base than it does with syntax. However, since a lot of code was written in academia by grad. students and post-docs with little adult supervision I can understand some peoples frustration with looking at old Fortran and thinking that’s how everyone does it.