Notices by André-LA 🎀 gamedev (andre_la@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@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.

1/2

@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.

@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.

Trying to recover the time lost.

(Damn I bought this book, like, 4 or 3 years ago, but reading only now)

Also will try to resume crafting interpreters tomorrow 🙏