Gregory's Server@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: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_talks_about_the_real_reason_to_use_tabs/
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@weebull @rupert @housepanther @catsalad Aligning stuff is a horrible idea IMO anyway, since it forces you to change multiple lines as soon as one longer name term is introduced. Get rid of that and you'll have a better code base no matter if you are using tabs or spaces. @danrot @rupert @housepanther @catsalad I agree for separate statements, but you don't align to parenthesis in multiline statements? |
@danrot @rupert @housepanther @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.
@danrot @rupert @housepanther @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...