pfft, all you bloody 2 space indentation hipsters

4 spaces for life!

I hate 2 spaces as well, feels way too cramped

U will burn in the fires of coder hell, or as we all k now it. Making a dev code in notepad on windows xp.

4 spaces is too much, its like trying to fuck ur gf from the other side of the room.

Just use tabs, you can set them to appear one space wide if you want.

Tab set to 4 spaces, one key press to satisfy tab-ers, and it's actually spaces to satisfy the spacers. You 2 spacers can get your shit straight.

And while we're at it, to the co-worker in my office that uses 3 spaces, I hope you smash your hand with a hammer.

Idea: no white space. none. anywhere.

Tab = 4 spaces, is also acceptable.

To that psychopath @RTRMS that hates readable code. 2 spaces is the visual equivalent of having 16 devs on 1 desk all fighting for shoulder room trying to code.

For years everyone was fine with 4 spaces, just admit your mistake and come back to us, there's no shame in it, just stop this madness

@practiseSafeHex how about 3 spaces?!

@metaory ... sure and while I'm at it, why don't I trade in this iPhone for an Android, or trade in my mac for a windo..... *shudders* ..... nope still not ready to joke about that one

... you get the idea ... not gonna happen

@practiseSafeHex
I get that mac for Windows is a bad switch, but iPhone to Android? What are you, nuts?

All devs should use Android and since you have Mac trying Linux wouldn't hurt.

IOS is the dummies OS

@practiseSafeHex you devs and your vs code, all that extra space wasted in an effort to make untidy long-winded code.

I'll use 4 spaced when Apple starts making real phones.

@eeeddr Mac basically is Linux without all the driver issues, and gets supported versions of software. Why would I go backwards?

And Android? Jesus hold me back.

- Fragmented to fuck
- Hackable as fuck
- Bloated to fuck
- Slow as fuckity fuck
- Plug it in to charge and get fucked by projectile shrapnel

Tabs. Get your semantics right. The sole purpose of the tab key is for indentation. Guess what spaces are for? Inline spaces... Stop this ridiculous age old battle and let logic sort this bullshit out. Tabs = indentation. Tabs = customising the size of your indentation. Tabs = you're not a fucking flannel. Spaces = an inconsistent mess of multiple keypress hell covered in old school dev mentality that presentation is for fairies. Code has to be readable, the dev experience has to be as frictionless as possible and spaces as indentation has to just fuck off!!

@RTRMS well it's atom actually. Just because it's easy to read doesn't make it long winded. 4 was the defacto standard in every language until Google started a new trend with 2. If it works for everyone else except js hipsters ... it's the way to go.

Real phones? Dude pull that shrapnel out of your eye from plugging in that Android. Among the 4 million other reasons why iPhones are better, have you ever seen the JavaScript benchmarks of iOS vs Android? 5 year old iPhones out performing brand new top of the line Androids. If memory serves I think the google pixel scored a 21 (and crashed twice) and my iPhone 7+ scored 111

@practiseSafeHex I have owned an iPhone, will regret that decision till the day I die, biggest steaming pile of shit I have ever owned. I will never some overpriced piece of crap where the manufacturer feels self important enough to limit even basic abilities to how they feel I should use it.

Its like writing code with ur hands behind ur back cuffed to ur balls.

Hell , the useless piece of crap cannot even display a gist page on its useless good for nothing default browser.

Why anyone with an actual brain would use one is beyond me, explains why you like all that excess white space

I knew a guy who liked to use 3-space indentation. What a weirdo.

@liammartens 4 spaces feels way to far apart. Shall we go for 3 then?

@ddulic but 3 is uneven ☹

I use 4 spaces but there are appropriate use cases of 2 spaces sometimes, such as JSON. I've also used two spaces for some JS projects just because it was the default on intelliJ

Fuck you all space users. Tab for life.

Try to understand just like other said. The sole purpose of Tab is indentation.

4 spaces for me, 2 is barely recognisable as an indent in my opinion.

I just use what is default in current IDE im working in...fuck me, right?

I don't think I would mind 4 spaces, but I've got listing rules that don't allow lines longer than 80 characters. Once I'm tabbed in a few times I can barely instantiate any more variables

@tytho 80 chars???

Jesus I got pissed off with 140 and had to disable it

@nblackburn Depends on the font.

@RTRMS
Im with you on that. Sure android may be less secure for various reasons, many which can simply be prevented if your smart with your device.
The other thing I like about Android is that; Update actually improve your device, iOS updates degrade it. My current phone has gone from Android 4.4 to Android 7.0 now with custom ROMs, my iPad (released the same time as my phone) has gone from iOS 7 -> 10. The difference now is, the ipad is unbearable to use, slow, crashes, wifi issues; where as the Android has only gotten better. UI is more intuitive, faster, better battery life, lack of stability is basically a non issue anymore.

Plus, android is a hell lot more flexible, id rather have an OS that I feel I am in charge of, not a locked down system with limited capability.

Anyways, Tabs for days, no spaces

What the hell with this arguing.

Use whatever standard the current project requires. No one said you have to like it.

I personally prefer a 4-space TAB, but will use whatever format that is being used in the current project.