> "Many of us" prefer spaces for that reason and that's why it has become the de facto standard Has it? I wasn't informed. I know it has in the Python communit

> "Many of us" prefer spaces for that reason and that's why it has become the de facto standard Has it? I wasn't informed. I know it has in the Python community, because of pep8 mainly, but a lot of communities have settled on tabs (Lua for example, and for a long time PHP until recently). I'll paste here what I replied to someone off-thread, regarding "why" anything ever becomes a de facto standard. > I would bet quite a bit that personal indent preferences are driven by whatever the default is on the editor of choice of the person in question. I would equally bet that you can correlate the tab defaults on editors/IDEs widely used in specific communities (Visual Studio for Windows C-family stacks, PyCharm for python, Eclipse and its little family for java, etc) and the general preference of that community. Chicken and egg problem. Spaces aren't standard because they're preferred; they're preferred because they're standardized by editor defaults. Developers that don't have a particular preference grow into those defaults.