Tabs are objectively better than spaces
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Yesterday, I shared some spicy takes. A few were particularly controversial—most notably, that I correct Gif the correct way (with a soft G)—but I also got a lot of emails asking me to elaborate on a few of them. Today, I wanted to talk about how tabs are objectively better than spaces. This won’t take long. Tabs let you define how big you want each indent to be, and spaces do not.
  • z3bra@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    Tabs for indent, spaces for alignment. This is the way, I can’t believe people are still fighting that ?

  • eee@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Neither tabs or spaces are good. The correct way is to leave no whitespace in the code at all. It’s unnecessary and adds to processing time.

    Everyone should aim for 1LOC per commit

  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    Tabs let you define how big you want each indent to be

    …except when they don’t. Many common environments have a hardcoded tab size of 8, which is insanely big for using it for indentation.

    • z3bra@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 years ago

      Because other people might have restricted environment which might not suit their preference is not a good reason to level it down IMO.

      Also, I think 9 is the best size for indent (matter of preference), do you think I should switch to space so everyone can enjoy this wonderful view I have ?