Re:Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really?
by marcus_holmes on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @06:30PM
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this is my opinion, too. In an ideal world we would all use tabs so that we could all see the indentation level that suits us best. But it's not an ideal world. So we're forced to use spaces and agree on how many spaces to indent with.
Except for Go programmers.
Ultimately, the spaces vs. tabs debate really comes down to which policy is less likely to result in mixed tabs/spaces. If people use tabs, it seems inevitable that some spaces will sneak in there as well. If people use spaces, tabs are unlikely to sneak in. Obviously that's a combination of common default editor configs and human behavior, but that's just how it works out in practice.