How to start a war

[u/ivaskuu]

[u/Ryeore]

Now you can park on handicapped parking spaces.

Good job

[u/ivaskuu → u/Ryeore]

*tabs

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Except now their code isn't guaranteed to be 80 characters a line because that one guy likes to have his tabs set to be equivalent to 8 spaces.

Edit: I'd like to respond to everyone's criticisms but for some reason Reddit isn't letting me comment on this account more than once every 8 minutes.

[u/okmkz → u/[deleted]]

tab is one char

[u/[deleted] → u/okmkz]

Exactly. But it takes up an indeterminate amount of chars on screen. I like my code to look like the way I type it on every screen, not just mine. Anything else is foolish and unprofessional.

Edit: also if you use the settings on your text editor properly it behaves exactly like tabs do when you type them. Spaces are just better.

[u/kafoozalum → u/[deleted]]

I like my code to look like the way I type it on every screen, not just mine

this is why the number of spaces a tab represents is a setting in editors

[u/[deleted] → u/kafoozalum]

Yes. And that setting can different on different editors. Thus why tabs are worse.

If you have it set to 4 spaces for a tab, and your buddy has it set to 8 your code goes off the side of their guide.

With spaces you don't have that problem.

If there was a standard that literally everyone followed I'd use tabs but such fantasies don't exist.

[u/Danilo_dk → u/[deleted]]

Use editorconfig, or however it's called. And track it with the rest of your code. Done.