The creator of Scala, Martin Odersky, has proposed introducing Python-like significant indentation to Scala and getting rid of braces:
I was playing for a while now with ways to make Scala's syntax indentation-based. I always admired the neatness of Python syntax and also found that F# has benefited greatly from its optional indentation-based syntax, so much so that nobody seems to use the original syntax anymore. https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/2491 -- Steve Emoji: a small, fuzzy, indistinct picture used to replace a clear and perfectly comprehensible word. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list