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Ask HN: Tabs or Spaces
- woanversace 10y agoTabs
- smt88 10y agoTabs for indentation, spaces after that for alignment (aka "smart tabs"). But it almost doesn't matter at all. Almost.
- minimaxir 10y agoVouching for this, since it's a plot point in the latest Silicon Valley episode and not a random request of preference.
- benologist 10y agoIn 2016 I think the best approach is pick a formatter (gofmt-alikes 'standardjs' etc) run it on save and not think about it anymore.
- hulahoof 10y agoI have my tabs set to 3-4 spaces - nothing is more annoying than opening in a program with a long default tab.. spaces preserve the format better across systems IMO
- brador 10y agoImagine doing it 1000 times. That's 3000-4000 space presses or 1000 tabs. RSI is not fun.
- smt88 10y agoThe IDE/editor takes care of that. But I still like tabs.
- rffn 10y agoSpaces.The right amount is inserted by autoindent or by setting tab width to the desired value and hitting tab then.
- eip 10y agoTabs. Obviously. You can set pretty much any editor to display tabs as whatever amount of indent you want. Harder to do that with spaces. Also spaces = tons of unnecessary button pushing.