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The choice isn't really "tabs vs spaces", it's "(tabs and spaces) vs (spaces)". And 8 char indentation is ludicrous.

• smcameron 5y ago
  Ludicrous, nope, it's the standard. See: linux kernel. To quote from the coding style: "Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3."[1] If it works for a multi-million line C code base like the linux kernel withou any real problem, then it's definitely not ludicrous. If you find yourself indenting too much, then write some helper functions. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.h...
  • ncmncm 5y ago
    It's a ludicrous standard, fortunately in decline.
  • adamdusty 5y ago
    It's definitely not the standard. It's a standard for one project that started decades ago.