I wish we could remove braces from a lot of the new languages. Having a lot of symbols like {:abc:} or whatever might make parsing convenient, but it doesn't make typing, readability, or searching more convenient. Most search engines will strip out symbols and just look for words.

When I first started with Python I though using white space to show structure was crazy. After using it for 13 years, I don't want to go back to typing what appears to me to be useless braces. Have I ever had a problem due to a misindent? Yeah, a couple of times. I've had that problem with braces too, about the same number of times.