arguments against space as indentation:
- lack of accessibility
- lack of standardisation (i have seen, no joke, a codebase i worked on professionally with 3 spaces per level. and we were forced to maintain it)
- confusion when inputting depending on editor (if your tab key produces tabs not spaces, you have to press space several times per level to match rest of file)
arguments against tab as indentation:
- nhgguuuhh i don't know how to make tab smaller in my editor waaaah
TABs are a stupid leftover from the days of mechanical typewriters. They are one of the best reasons (among ounces, cars, the Electoral College, churches, the letter Q, weapons, etc.) why the Earth should be ground up into gravel, and used to build a better planet from scratch.
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@JorgeStolfi you're clearly a bad actor so i'm going to put this link here for anyone else who comes across your reply and block you now https://adamtuttle.codes/blog/2021/tabs-vs-spaces-its-an-accessibility-issue/ 👋
