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Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com (gomakethings.com)
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[–] Saganaki@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tabs for indentation/increased scope, spaces for alignment. The best answer.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Soft tabs are superior. press tab-> get 4 spaces.

[–] Saganaki@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

…did you not read the article?

[–] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In come my idiotic colleagues:

"buT w3 lIke 2 SpACe5!"

fuck with the linter

[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use a product that has a homegrown scripting language that enforces two space tabs and will crash with anything else.

[–] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

My main issue is that they keep changing format all the time and making merge requests unnecessarily difficult. Wanna use two? I hate it but fine. But let's agree on this and change our formatter all at once.