The fact that the topic tends to "provoke a religious war" should be enough clue to know that you need to support both, not one or the other. There's also enoug

The fact that the topic tends to "provoke a religious war" should be enough clue to know that you need to support both, not one or the other. There's also enough hate for Makefile's required use of tabs to now have yet another language with such a requirement. If you want your language to have a wide range of users, let me tell that I wouldn't chose to use a language that required me to use tabs. I don't care what awesome features it has. It's a dealbreaker. By the way, your reason "a" is the age-old argument in favour of tab indentation. You're not going to convince anyone that prefers spaces like that. We've all heard it. However, your reason "b" is just horrid and invalid. I've never heard of a programmer that would prefer to code in variable width font. OMG. I'm not going to reply further than this. You have to be trolling.