I'm (slowly) working my way through Crafting Interpreters, and trying to put together a design for my little interpreted language. Thinking about the syntax has got me curious - do you prefer for a language to have:

1. Braces and semicolons (C, JavaScript, Rust)
2. Braces and no semicolons (Go, Wren)
3. Semicolons and no braces (I'm not actually sure anyone does this?)
4. No braces and no semicolons, with significant whitespace (Python)
5. No braces and no semicolons, with no significant whitespace (Lua)
6. Some other wacky design I've not thought of...

Personally, I tend to prefer the explicitness of option 1, but at the same time I don't really like that {} has a double meaning (is it a scope, or is it an object literal?). How about everyone else?