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Ah so you're "tabs" haha

• wolrah 6y ago
  100% the reason I'm a tab guy. If I'm glancing at some code on my phone, I can have it set to two space tabs to maximize the amount that fits on screen. If I'm on my desktop they're four spaces because my screen is huge and more visibly apparent indentation is valuable. Same editor, same data. If it's a shared codebase and someone else likes 8 space tabs, 6 space, or whatever they want (13 space? no kinkshaming here...). To me that is a significant objective advantage of tabs, where the only advantage spaces seem to offer is that you can align text on multiple levels of indentation.
  • PunksATawnyFill 6y ago
    Yep. I have yet to hear a coherent argument against tabs. It’s such a tiresome squabble.
    • sam_lowry_ 6y ago
      Douglas Crockford made an interesting argument in favour of spaces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En8Ubs2k1O8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En8Ubs2k1O8
    • ric2b 6y ago
      Vertical alignment of related lines.
      • dkersten 6y ago
        If you indent with tabs, you can still align with spaces for vertical alignment.
      • PunksATawnyFill 6y ago
        That’s the whole point of tabs. How is this an argument against them?
        • ric2b 6y ago
          Because it doesn't work with tabs, someone else will have a different tab-width.