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I couldn't care less about this, and I generally feel out of place when other programmers ask me about my preferences on this topic. I have written code in diff

I couldn't care less about this, and I generally feel out of place when other programmers ask me about my preferences on this topic. I have written code in different programming languages, and just naming Go and PHP where Tabs and Spaces are the standard respectively — PHP mostly because of PSR — I simply don't pay attention to the character(s) used for the indentation, the tooling already does that for me, being gofmt for Go and PHPCS for PHP, and there is probably the same tools in other languages [1]. I never understood why people complained about this more than other (more important?) things in the code like the position of braces which is also a flame war between developers but it makes more sense than caring about Tabs vs. Spaces. [1] I say "probably" because even when I have written in Vala, C++, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, I have always relied on the IDE to automatically select the most common indentation in the project, so I never realize if I am using Tabs or Spaces since hitting the Tabulator key while using spaces will simply translate them to the correct indentation.

rdtsc 10y ago
Completely unrelated. Noticed you use Vala. Just curious, how do you find it? Do you just use it for GNOME related things (GUI building) or for other cases as well? Remember being interested in it a few years back. It seemed to be popular, but haven't followed it since.
- guessmyname 10y ago
  Vala was my first introduction to OOP and since I was always working in a Unix environment C# was not an option for me. The bindings to develop GTK-based applications were good enough but still today I believe that using tools like Glade writing a GTK-based app in any other language is as easy as it is with Vala, the only advantage is that I can compile to C without having to write C all the time. It has worked well for me, and was able to create corporate applications in the past. I don't use it with the same frequency now because of my current job, but it is still in my list of programming languages that I want to use for personal projects along with C++ and (recently) Go. For people interested in the language I suggest them to take a look at Elementary OS documentation, they are one of the most popular projects using Vala in production and I am sure they will appreciate any contribution from beginners and experience developers: https://elementary.io/developer https://elementary.io/developer — https://github.com/trending/vala https://github.com/trending/vala
  - rdtsc 10y ago
    Thanks. Didn't know about Elementary OS and was surprised there is a good number of Vala projects on GH. Yeah there is something appealing about compiling to C. It is a relatively easier target than LLVM or assembly. Nim is in that space, is making progress but it still suffers from a small community of developers.

rdtsc 10y ago

Completely unrelated. Noticed you use Vala. Just curious, how do you find it? Do you just use it for GNOME related things (GUI building) or for other cases as well? Remember being interested in it a few years back. It seemed to be popular, but haven't followed it since.

guessmyname 10y ago
Vala was my first introduction to OOP and since I was always working in a Unix environment C# was not an option for me. The bindings to develop GTK-based applications were good enough but still today I believe that using tools like Glade writing a GTK-based app in any other language is as easy as it is with Vala, the only advantage is that I can compile to C without having to write C all the time. It has worked well for me, and was able to create corporate applications in the past. I don't use it with the same frequency now because of my current job, but it is still in my list of programming languages that I want to use for personal projects along with C++ and (recently) Go. For people interested in the language I suggest them to take a look at Elementary OS documentation, they are one of the most popular projects using Vala in production and I am sure they will appreciate any contribution from beginners and experience developers: https://elementary.io/developer https://elementary.io/developer — https://github.com/trending/vala https://github.com/trending/vala
- rdtsc 10y ago
  Thanks. Didn't know about Elementary OS and was surprised there is a good number of Vala projects on GH. Yeah there is something appealing about compiling to C. It is a relatively easier target than LLVM or assembly. Nim is in that space, is making progress but it still suffers from a small community of developers.