Why have and white space at all in that case? Even on an absolutely gigantic codebase using tabs or spaces will make almost no difference to build or type-chec

Why have and white space at all in that case? Even on an absolutely gigantic codebase using tabs or spaces will make almost no difference to build or type-checking times. Building an AST is much more overhead than white space considerations and once it’s an AST tabs or spaces are not included in the running of the code.