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This rant was made to trigger the warriors of the the oldest war fought over something related to programming
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@CSaratakij I'm tired of any X is better than Y wars.
Better to who? Which part of X is better than Y, why? Does anythingβ you can possibly do with that is always better than Y? So probably it's better to you, not anyone else.
People never consider these... -
jamesmalvi28yHi, I am one of the developers of this tool, let me know if you have any suggestion to improve.
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I personally don't like hearing
*Click**Click**Click**Click**Click* whenever I start a new line. I do understand that people like more control, butttttt....
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@jamesmalvi I love it, it's a great tool, Especially when I'm working with codepen and want to minify code.
I just thought it was funny that one of its errors would trigger a space vs tab war. -
akiroz4628yI really don't get people's problems with spaces... most editors can substitute tab with spaces automatically so they feel like tabs.
On the other hand, hard-tabbed files get messed up if you don't get the tab-width right.... -
megabait1208yIt seems like many advocates of tabs actually believe that we hit the space bar four times...
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People also don't understand that it's a language convention thing, not personal preference.
Majority of JS and Elixir projects use 2 spaces. Most PHP, Python and Erlang projects use 4. Go files use tabs. Some languages like Haskell use variable amounts of spaces for alignment, instead of just indentation.
For an existing project, use existing indentation unless the whole team unanimously decides it's worth fixing.
For a new project, use the idiomatic indentation method.
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