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You shouldn't use tabs for new projects, because spaces are more popular. It's like endianness: it doesn't matter which you use, as long as it's the same as eve
by alextgordon 11y ago
You shouldn't use tabs for new projects, because spaces are more popular. It's like endianness: it doesn't matter which you use, as long as it's the same as everybody else.
Right now, "everybody else" is using spaces. So get onboard.
- dradtke 11y agoNew projects should standardize on whether they want tabs or spaces out of the gate, preferably enforced by something like editorconfig, and make that decision based on the preferences of the actual people involved at the time.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- prodigal_erik 11y agoBig-endian and little-endian convey exactly the same information. Tabs and spaces don't; tabs impose fewer requirements on presentation and discourage people from wasting effort on fragile ASCII art that mostly just causes spurious merge conflicts.