This is a pet peeve of mine, but it’s so ingrained into dev culture that it seems impossible to stop. We could have a little bit of intellectual integrity and a

This is a pet peeve of mine, but it’s so ingrained into dev culture that it seems impossible to stop. We could have a little bit of intellectual integrity and at least say “good” instead of “best” but we won’t. We also use it to argue for opinion over empirical data points. E.g., tabs vs spaces. The “best practice” is some arbitrary number of spaces because “alignment”; this ignores entirely a substantial argument for tabs in the form of accessibility—you can make a tab whatever width you want, so if you’re visually impaired you don’t have to modify the code to read it and re-format it to the “best practice”. TLDR; tab indentation followed by space alignment would actually satisfy everyone’s needs, but it’s totally off the table because “best practice” is spaces.