Ask HN: It's 2018, tabs or spaces?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16068967

by dvh • 9 years ago

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kimusan• 9 years ago

Spaces, now and forever.

gcthomas• 9 years ago

Spaces. Tabs are invisible and mess stuff up if mixed with spaces.

jjgreen• 9 years ago

Both!

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TabsSpacesBoth

chatmasta• 9 years ago

Spaces. Your editor should convert the tab key to spaces.

camhenlin• 9 years ago

tabs, so everyone can choose their own display width

gbrunacci• 9 years ago

Well... https://ukupat.github.io/tabs-or-spaces/

IpV8• 9 years ago

I love how some people use 3 spaces.

maowenbrad• 9 years ago

Spaces

WillKirkby• 9 years ago

Let's not do this again.

dontJudge• 9 years ago

Both. Tabs for indents. Spaces for alignments after the indent level is reached.

Everyone can view code with their preferred indent width. Perfect solution with no flaws or drawbacks. Maybe 1 drawback, it requires advanced tooling (emacs smart-tabs-mode) to automatically handle the indentation/alignment.

Indent width is a visual effect. Mandating an indent width with hard spaces is like mandating the color scheme.

dukeflukem• 9 years ago

Whatever the rest of the team uses. For personal projects: whatever is idiomatic for that language.