Tabs are objectively better than spaces
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Yesterday, I shared some spicy takes. A few were particularly controversial—most notably, that I correct Gif the correct way (with a soft G)—but I also got a lot of emails asking me to elaborate on a few of them. Today, I wanted to talk about how tabs are objectively better than spaces. This won’t take long. Tabs let you define how big you want each indent to be, and spaces do not.
  • z3bra
    42•1 year ago

    Because other people might have restricted environment which might not suit their preference is not a good reason to level it down IMO.

    Also, I think 9 is the best size for indent (matter of preference), do you think I should switch to space so everyone can enjoy this wonderful view I have ?

    • xigoi
      6•1 year ago

      It’s not just “might”. Termux is pretty much the only good choice for programming on Android.

      I think 9 is the best size for indent (matter of preference), do you think I should switch to space

      I think you should switch to an exorcist.

      • z3bra
        3•1 year ago

        What’s your point ? You can use vim on termux and set the tabsize to whatever you want for example.

        • xigoi
          1•1 year ago

          Yes, but if you use something like cat, head, less, etc. to view code, or the Python REPL, you’re still going to see the default tab size.

          • z3bra
            2•1 year ago

            You can set the tabstop with less -x*n*. But ok I see what you mean. I still stand by my point though. If termux doesn’t support setting tabstops and it’s an issue, then it’s a bug in termux, not a reason to level down your formatting standard.

      • z3bra
        4•1 year ago

        Straight on point!