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   Hisham (hisham_hm@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 03:34:47 JST Hisham

   Wow, over 3500 people voted and it ended up 51%/49%. That's impressive.

   It's been a long long time since I've last touched any codebase that used tabs. I thought this debate was pretty much settled by now, but it only comes to show once again how we perceive the world in bubbles.

   https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114218144555074935

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 03:34:46 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @hisham_hm Even opinions aside, I've mostly seen tabs for C, Go and similar languages, and otherwise spaces for like Python/Elixir/Haskell/…
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 03:38:04 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @hisham_hm i just kind of lurk around codebases with tabs so i use tabs myself
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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 14:53:58 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • André-LA 🎀 gamedev

     @Andre_LA > Btw: there's only one language that tabs don't feel right: LISP.

     Looking at code where tabs are used, feels right.

     @hisham_hm

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     André-LA 🎀 gamedev (andre_la@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 14:53:59 JST André-LA 🎀 gamedev

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     @hisham_hm In conclusion:

     To be honest, enforcing this kind of thing on the language level is a bad idea and Rust did a mistake in my opinion :v.

     Btw: there's only one language that tabs don't feel right: LISP.

     However, lisp never feels right, at least not in the weird indentation formatting we see in lisp code, and that's why I use a "weird++" formatting for my Carp (a lisp) code :V.

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     André-LA 🎀 gamedev (andre_la@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 14:54:01 JST André-LA 🎀 gamedev

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     @hisham_hm I also realized that's for the better for everyone: 2 can be hard for many people to differentiate indentation levels, but also useful when you don't have a big monitor.

     Also, I heard that some people uses 1, because due to vision impairment, they use a giant font size, and using 1 width is a pretty good thing.

     *One thing I've read is that IDEs should deal with the accessibility, but I personally disagree that we should defer these choices to IDEs as an easy answer like that.

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     André-LA 🎀 gamedev (andre_la@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 14:54:02 JST André-LA 🎀 gamedev

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     @hisham_hm I started to use tabs because of an article that claims it is better to use them because of accessibility:

     https://adamtuttle.codes/blog/2021/tabs-vs-spaces-its-an-accessibility-issue/

     Tbh, after trying to find if this was really the case, I never found a strong evidence that tabs are really better for accessibility*.

     However, I end up keeping the tabs for a killer feature:

     It's consistent, indentation width is just not an existent discussion with tabs: if you like 4, just set your editor to use 4.

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