I will never understand why people are so set on spaces...
21Tabs are blasphemy.
11Why?
9I use spaces, but tabs use fewer characters, are easier to edit and allow for people to have custom indentation levels...
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If you’re using monospaced fonts for writing code (please tell me you are) spaces make sure that the code will look roughly the same on everyone’s machine.
def function(paramX: str, paramY: str, paramZ: str) -> int: passIf I’d used tabs, the second and third parameter might not align with the first.
Also, left-side indentation is only a small part of the overall whitespace in code. You’re adding whitespace even when you write
x = y. Spaces make sure that this whitespace around the=grows in the same scale as the indentation.9Yes but it's not your job to make sure your code looks the same for everyone else. If they'd prefer to read it with a different tab size, maybe they're using a smaller screen, or a larger one because of vision issues there's no reason they shouldn't. You can use an optional editor config if you want it to be able to look the same for others.
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I will never understand why people are so set on spaces...
They just never really understood tabs. If they did, they wouldn't be sitting there counting how many times they hit the space bar!
3We understand tabs perfectly, we press the tab bar and our editor inserts 4 spaces like god intended
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That joke in the second panel though...
11Unrealistic, everyone knows that tabs are 8 characters
1Nah, 2.
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