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Re:Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux... by deanishe on Sunday March 31, 2024 @10:29AM (#39884609)
> There's a lot of things that render as whitespace

Like what? As you note, mixing tabs and spaces is now an error.

I've never understood the objection to semantic whitespace. Complaining about having to indent code correctly strikes me as being akin to complaining about having to pee in the toilet instead of the bathtub.

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Re:Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux... by capitainenemo on Sunday March 31, 2024 @03:15PM (#39887149)
there is a huge difference between having a coding standard (handled easily by a linter on commit in most languages) and making a particular whitespace indentation a critical language feature.

Bonus, if there's a good reason to change the linter format, you can do so. Rust handles this rather well I think.

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