the only right answer for "tabs vs space" question is "i put a modeline comment with the project accepted style on all files I touch. And that style guide better say tabs" :)
Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
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Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
#392Doesnt using spaces to indent code waste a lot of time? I mean sure if you're only indenting once, it takes a few extra key presses to make 1 tab worth of space bar clicks but if your code gets really deep, then you're talking about wasting a lot of time hitting the space bar key per indent PER line...each subsequent line of indented code doubles the amount of space bar clicks...
Am i missing something here? this sounds really dumb, as tabs make the most sense, and it appears use less memory as well.
Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
#393Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
#394I see a few arguments here which suggest people think tab-users might care less about their code and/or their fellow coder. As someone who slightly prefers tabs and abhors mixing of tabs/spaces, I find this frustrating. I generally prefer tabs because I feel that they're more egalitarian: I like 4-space indentation, but don't want to force that on everyone encountering my code. Similarly, I find 2-space indentation v…
Using tabs has the opposite of your intended effect: If there is any text which is vertically aligned beyond the first indent, then this alignment will break for anyone who doesn't have your tab width preference. They're then forced to change their editor settings to view your file in a non-broken way. I get way more pissed about someone else "forcing their preferences on me" when this happens than when I run into a…
Indent with tabs.
Align with spaces.
Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
yea, thats why I specified "and it doesn't mean anything on its own,"
So how can it be a great indicator then?
an indicator is just that, an indicator. It doesn't mean anything on its own, but in the presence of additional information (interview question responses and discussions in this case) it can help paint a better picture.
If someone answered this question with "what? I don't know/care", and then knocked more important questions out of the park, then it was obviously a bad indicator and isn't relevant.
Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
#396I see a few arguments here which suggest people think tab-users might care less about their code and/or their fellow coder. As someone who slightly prefers tabs and abhors mixing of tabs/spaces, I find this frustrating. I generally prefer tabs because I feel that they're more egalitarian: I like 4-space indentation, but don't want to force that on everyone encountering my code. Similarly, I find 2-space indentation v…
Using tabs has the opposite of your intended effect: If there is any text which is vertically aligned beyond the first indent, then this alignment will break for anyone who doesn't have your tab width preference. They're then forced to change their editor settings to view your file in a non-broken way. I get way more pissed about someone else "forcing their preferences on me" when this happens than when I run into a…
vertical align serves no purpose. why would anyone ever considers it important?
silly js devs and their var block...
Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
#397Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
#398Well, of course. Only companies with fuck-you money can afford the extra bytes spaces take up versus tabs, so it follows logically that they'd pay their developers more.
While your comment is obviously meant as a joke, it somehow rings true from my anecdotal experience. I'd also like to see an analysis of space-vs-tabs as it relates to operating systems. Again, from anecdotal experience, it seems spaces are more common for folks with *nix background who tend to work in product-oriented companies (i.e. where code is an asset) and tabs are more common with windows folks, who tend to wo…
Windows itself is indented with spaces.
Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
#399= Why Grown-Ups Don't Use Tabs = * Joe likes 4-space tabs, I like 2-space tabs, and Jane is old-school with 8-space tabs. * All goes well until someone aligns something visually, like so: void someNiceMethod( [tab][tab][tab][tab][space][space]int myParam...); * Now it aligns perfectly on my machine, looks mostly ok on Joe's machine, and is ON MARS on Jane's machine. Thus one-or-more of three futures happens: * Someon…
> * Joe likes 4-space tabs, I like 2-space tabs, and Jane is old-school with 8-space tabs.
> * Someone calls a meeting and demands we all switch to spaces
They compromise on the average 5 spaces per tab and everybody is dissatisfied.
Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Finally, when another developer looks at the code, their IDE will render the tabs as whatever its set up for, 2 spaces, 4 spaces, etc. In other words, it adds flexibility. This is exactly why I use tabs and the reason which appears to never get cited in the holy wars. People who use spaces want to line up their '=' signs, that's fine, but I don't believe it's my position to enforce the amount of whitespace another…
> This is exactly why I use tabs and the reason which appears to never get cited in the holy wars. I see this cited every time. Unfortunately, it's bogus in practice. Consider: print('some long thing', further, arguments) If this is an indented block, you'd have to indent the second line to the correct depth with tabs, then add exactly six spaces for alignment . You have to mix spaces and tabs, which is never good ne…
you're going to be downvoted by the thou shalt not mix tabs and spaces crowd that fails to understand the reason of what they preach. sigh.
also the fly by night devs who still don't see tabs on their text editors... I mean, ide.