I don't get why the default for #rustlang is 4-space tabs. It's a pretty verbose language, so you'd think you want the extra horizontal room, no? I'm glad I can easily change it with rustfmt.toml though!
@edward you prefer 2? IME it looks like a word soup with such small indents
@EyalL Ah I disagree 😅 I am used to 2 with ruby/js/yaml/html/css/others and never once thought it looked better as 4. But I am new to rust code so maybe it will make sense the more I use it.
Bah, rustfmt.toml: hard_tabs=true, use them only for indent, and then everyone can be happy.
@ambihelical @AstraKernel @edward I've yet to see an editor or a project where that did not degenerate into a mess
@EyalL @AstraKernel @edward I've seen it done with one company I worked for, it worked. There was a good code review culture there, so I think that will be required.
@ambihelical @AstraKernel @edward code review tools mostly don't differentiate tabs from spaces so it's very hard to catch the mess
Invisibly different characters are a bad idea
@EyalL @AstraKernel @edward
Honestly it was not even close to an issue. Mainly because we set tabs to be visible in our editors (vscode, vim, and emacs) and code review tools (gerrit I think it was). And we were all pretty good developers. If you have poor tooling or developers I can see where it might be a problem 🤷
@ambihelical @AstraKernel @edward and as I said, all tab using projects I've seen everywhere, including the Linux kernel, end up with messy space and tab mixes
@ambihelical @AstraKernel @edward I wouldn't say they are poor because of they don't invest in tab distinguishing.
We judge developers based on slightly more important traits 😂
So using only spaces frees up resources to deal with more important stuff