@acousticmirror hahaha

@acousticmirror @slothrop You are seen.

@acousticmirror I've heard of safe spaces, but safe tabs? not so much. I think Rust should remove support for this unsafe feature

@acousticmirror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)

@acousticmirror @charles_ex descriptive

@acousticmirror This is why I call it invisible source code! I prefer my semantics in plain sight.

@acousticmirror TIL this person's name is Drake

@acousticmirror thanks for supporting the right side of the argument

@acousticmirror This reminds me of Silicon Valley 🤣

@acousticmirror funny but would be nice to add a description!

Edit: my bad, there is one indeed!

@acousticmirror spaces ✅

@acousticmirror literally every web dev course be like lol

@acousticmirror And yet, as soon as I mention that I set my editor to display tabs with a width of three spaces, these two "opposing" camps seem to have no problem agreeing that I should be burned at the stake.

@acousticmirror somehow i was so curious about the alt text

@acousticmirror lmao

@acousticmirror Nice one.
Edge case: In shell script "here documents" you actually need *both* (first a tab, then indentation using spaces) if you want to have indented text/code in your heredoc while retaining your current script indentation level (e.g. heredoc with code inside a function).

@acousticmirror :pika:

@acousticmirror tabs need to die by fire and with furious anger

@acousticmirror

fully agree

@acousticmirror (gets used to having a decided preference for spaces)

(starts programming in Go)

🤷

@acousticmirror looking at you, YAML 👀

@acousticmirror tabs are like gifs with a hard “g”.

@acousticmirror Spaces are the bane of my existence.

@acousticmirror No feeling worse than hearing that space bar a dozen times next to you.

@acousticmirror The original safe-space debate.

All whitespace matters.

@acousticmirror I remember working on a codebase that used a single space for indentation because otherwise the nested blocks didn't fit on the screen.

So yes, set the tab stop to 1 and keep everyone... Happy?

@acousticmirror Reminds me of this Silicon Valley classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsoOG6ZeyUI

@acousticmirror where’s the love for non-breaking spaces??? :P

@acousticmirror Just like how it's not pronounced gif, it's pronounced gif.

@acousticmirror 🤣

@acousticmirror Finally being officially vindicated by this meme here! Thank you for posting the one and only CORRECT way of doing it!

@acousticmirror or be thoroughly up to date and switch to U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE throughout

@acousticmirror 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏