400k GitHub Repositories: Spaces or Tabs?

https://medium.com/@hoffa/400-000-github-repositories-1-billion-files-14-terabytes-of-code-spaces-or-tabs-7cfe0b5dd7fd#.o1d3cmm5r

by ironchief • 10 years ago

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dashoffset• 10 years ago

Interesting how Ruby has almost no code indented with tabs, while Go has almost no code indented with spaces (I believe this is due to gofmt, but I might be wrong).

phasmantistes• 10 years ago

Yep, it's due to gofmt, which enforces tabs for all semantic indentation and spaces for all alignment indentation (which means lines never start with a space).

Chaoshade• 10 years ago

"Hey guys, how can we make the whole tabs vs. spaces thing even worse?

"How about we promote mixing the two?"

gramakri• 10 years ago

Would be interesting to see a statistic on 2 spaces vs 4 spaces as well. Somehow, I can never get used to 2 spaces, the code feels too cluttered. This applies to json/html/xml as well.

greenyoda• 10 years ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12397246

Daviey• 10 years ago

Repost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12397246

gkanapathy• 10 years ago

Hmm, but how many .vimrcs have

set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab

AjithAntony• 10 years ago

well, yes, of course all the space users are using the <tab> key.

teacurran• 10 years ago

I imagine a lot of the stats are based on tooling defaults. For Java we have a corporate standard to use tabs but most developers aren't even aware of their indents. Eclipse defaults to spaces so thats what ends up in a lot of code.

catskul2• 10 years ago

I've found that a lot of developers I talk to prefer tabs (for indenting only) but go with spaces when they start a new project because they feel like it's less contentious for some reason.

phantom_oracle• 10 years ago

Am I seeing something totally incorrect?

It says:

py | files/tabs = 27,525 | files/spaces = 589,917

How is this possible?

LoneWolf• 10 years ago

I fail to see what is the problem, care to elaborate?

perrygeo• 10 years ago

Spaces are strongly preferred in the official style guide: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces. I've been programming Python for 11 years now and have never seen a file with tab indentation.

400k GitHub Repositories: Spaces or Tabs?

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