My project, Pokémon Showdown (https://github.com/Zarel/Pokemon-Showdown https://github.com/Zarel/Pokemon-Showdown) uses tabs, although it's not for any religiou

My project, Pokémon Showdown (https://github.com/Zarel/Pokemon-Showdown https://github.com/Zarel/Pokemon-Showdown) uses tabs, although it's not for any religious reasons, it's just what I was used to when I created the project. I suggested changing to spaces when I learned they were more popular, but my most opinionated coder preferred tabs so I kept it at tabs. Tabs and spaces both have their respective advantages and disadvantages. Advantages of tabs: - you can choose your indentation width in most editors, so coders don't have to agree on indentation width (this is really the only major advantage) - most very-basic editors that can't be configured, such as Notepad or the command-line directly, will default to having the tab key insert a tab character, which is easier to press than space N times (it's rare to edit code in such cases, though) - slightly smaller file-size, although this is pretty irrelevant in modern times Advantages of spaces: - certain editors are dumb and will mangle tabs in various ways (for instance, converting "3 tabs for indentation, 9 spaces for alignment" into 5 tabs and 1 space) - most file viewers that won't let you configure tab width (for instance, browsers, which is relevant to viewing code on GitHub) will have tab width set to 8 spaces, which is very awkward - avoids the problem of some people accidentally using tab for alignment and then having alignment be messed up when coders have different tab width settings - certain text fields, such as browser text boxes, will have the tab key focus the next input field instead of inserting a tab character, which makes inserting tab characters difficult sometimes (it's rare to edit code in such cases, though)