We use tabs at work. I haven't ever had any alignment issues or nasty diffs. Some people work with "two spaces" and some people with "four spaces". The rules of

We use tabs at work. I haven't ever had any alignment issues or nasty diffs. Some people work with "two spaces" and some people with "four spaces". The rules of alignment have to make sense, you don't just align wherever you want. There's a style guide of when to align and when not to align (but the IDE and tooling does it all for you) and it all comes out quite beautiful no matter how you have your tab chars to display.