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[–] T156 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

That's why you get the best of both worlds, and combine them to use tabspaces. Everyone will hate you equally, achieving true equality in the process.

[–] mundane_party 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tab characters are space efficient and configurable for each person in their editor. Space characters are consistent between developers.

Solution: each tabspace indent is a random width, making it both inconsistent and non-configurable. Also, each character is the size of at least four regular characters, so it’s not even space efficient

[–] PrometheusG 6 points 1 year ago

So, we're using Word?

[–] dojan 3 points 1 year ago

This sounds perfect.

[–] rooster_butt 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly the best solution is tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment.