So.... tabs or spaces?!

@rick good that the "spaces!!!111" people all were in the non voters camp, it now is official that tabs are better! 😁

@bonifartius @rick wait there are still people who don't remap tab to 4 spaces?

@bograt @rick

🤷‍♀️ i never understood whats the problem with tabs, they are more elegant and semantically correct imho. just tell your editor how to render them.

@bonifartius @rick oh believe me, I 100% agree with that. The problem is you're gonna have both tabs and spaces if you use tabs. Which imo is irrefutable evidence that tabs are inferior.
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@bograt @rick

> The problem is you're gonna have both tabs and spaces if you use tabs.

what? why? additionally, that only should be a problem with python (and other languages which parse indentation..).

i hate that go fmt also uses spaces to align things as it tries to align them using the minimum amount of (visible) whitespace, but at least that's not a problem there :)

> Which imo is irrefutable evidence that tabs are inferior.

isn't it more evidence that the tooling is broken if it can't handle mixed whitespace characters? :D

@bonifartius @rick
@bograt @rick

>what? why? additionally, that only should be a problem with python (and other languages which parse indentation..).

To.get things just right. Maybe I'm a sperg.

>isn't it more evidence that the tooling is broken if it can't handle mixed whitespace characters? :D

Why handle multiple when spaces can do anything tabs can?

Anyway the war is as old as computing and we're not gonna settle it here fren

@bograt @rick

> To.get things just right. Maybe I'm a sperg.

for me thats "neatly aligned with tabs" :P

> Why handle multiple when spaces can do anything tabs can?

but they can't, somehow they always fuck up something for me! :)

> Anyway the war is as old as computing and we're not gonna settle it here fren

indeed!

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