Tabs vs Spaces

I wonder what he thinks about spacemacs…

One benefit of tabs: If you’re reading highly nested code, you can adjust tab width in your editor to make it easier to read (so it doesn’t wrap as much).

Best of both worlds - just set your editor to use soft tabs

Why tabs are evil: L'ESPRIT DE COMBINAISON(!!) That

funny thing, watching that episode with my (non-developer) wife, my response to his whole i-like-precision thing was “Wouldn’t you just use spaces then?” which was this actresses next line.

I feel like this show makes my wife understand me a little more

For those who may have never used a manual typewriter, the semantic meaning of tab is harder to understand. When you physically set a tab stop on the typewriter, then press the tab key the insertion point jumps to the nearest tab stop to the right. Tabs were originally intended for vertical alignment, which really is our goal in code.

That said, I use the tab key, but have vim set to do soft tabs. That’s the best compromise IMHO.

I don’t believe there is a programmer who indent using space key instead of tab key, regardless of which character he uses in code (space or tab).

This programmer does! Also I think the debate for tabs vs spaces was settled long ago in Elixir; spaces.

@AstonJ Check this out: Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and align code.

Haven’t used it myself though.

I just put all my code on one line white space is for wimps.

This is spoiler I answer after I watch this episode