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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tabs > spaces

Tabs does allow you to set the spacing you need.
Spaces are like hardcoding passwords

[–] meekah 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, tabs are larger spaces, what's your point?

/s

You may be right, but I still have an unreasonable hate for tabs in code

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And I for spaces.

Let's hate both and be mad at the client?

[–] meekah 4 points 2 months ago

I like the way you think.

[–] fluckx 5 points 2 months ago

Tabs for indenting and spaces for aligning. There. Everybody wins and loses.

This way the code always looks aligned and if you prefer 4 spaces for a tab instead of 2 or 3 or 8 you can just set it in your IDE.

Crisis averted!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Both tabs and spaces are stupid.

It's ridiculous that in 2024, code formatting is still embedded in the source instead of being a style you apply.