[makizar]

The best effort I’ve seen at working around lisp’s parens notation and make its syntax more declarative-looking is Rhombus, which is based on Racket, and actually on track to replace it.

what it looks like:

https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/demo.rhm

more info:

https://doi.org/10.1145/3622818

https://github.com/racket/rhombus