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If sometime in the future they device some new formatting standard it would likely supplant and deprecate tabs, but spaces I believe would always be a fallback option.
Because people view source files using a multitude of means, and getting everybody across all their respective platforms to set things up is onerous. When you mix tabs and spaces there's no way to get alignment correct. Indentation is fine, if that's all you ever use them for, but human behavior is non-deterministic and unenforceable, making for completely hosed up source when tabs are used for anything other than pu…
I don't talk about mixing spaces and tabs. I talking about why don't we indent with tabs only? Spaces are good for separating tokens in code, but indentation is not for that - indentation is for making the structures visible, sometimes it is easier to read with smaller amount of indent, sometimes it is easier to read with larger amount of indent - based on my experiences. Why then to make the coders life worse than n…