@housepanther @catsalad The whole point is that the reader gets to choose.
Using spaces tells the reader that you hate them and hope they get leprosy.

@housepanther @catsalad Yes, I was on the losing side of that war. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

@rupert @housepanther @catsalad Because it wasn't. I was on team "don't care" for quite a long time, but since I stumbled upon this reddit post it is clear to me that tabs are a lot better: reddit.com/r/javascript/commen

@danrot @rupert @housepanther@mstdn.goblackcat.com @catsalad If people could actually, consistently limit tabs to block indentation, and never use them for alignment, then I might be convinced, but I've never seen this happen across a team.

The result is, especially in code bases written with a narrow tab stop active, that alignment (i. e. Indentation done that needs to be the same width as some text) will invariably be done with a mixture of tabs and spaces. Change the tab stop and everything breaks in a way that helps nobody, especially visually impaired people.

This is probably a tooling problem as much as anything, but tabs are too easy to get wrong.

@weebull @danrot @rupert @housepanther @catsalad so what I'm hearing you say is that the problem is people adding spaces for alignment.

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@FeralRobots @danrot @rupert @housepanther@mstdn.goblackcat.com @catsalad No, the problem is using tabs for alignment because they change size, but the text they align to does not.

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