> with tabs you can configure your editor to your preferences. Configure 1 tab to be 4 spaces. Sometimes it's easier to go with the flow. I like tabs for the

> with tabs you can configure your editor to your preferences. Configure 1 tab to be 4 spaces. Sometimes it's easier to go with the flow. I like tabs for the reasons you mentioned, but fixed-width spaces are a bit better for some reasons too. IDE's can do the heavy lifting of re-formatting indentation levels and converting tabs to spaces for me, and it means if I cat a file on a remote server regardless of the bash tab width settings or if I'm in your code or the stdlib it will all make sense.