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Haha... I knew it. 🤑😛
https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/...

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  • 6
    4 space indentation for the win! 🤓

    Those of us who use spaces know that our indentation isn't going to get messed up.

    This is important.

    We also clearly care enough to want fine-grained control over our visual horizontal and vertical alignment.

    This is also important.

    And clearly important enough to be rewarded! 😊
  • 2
    I use 2 spaces.
  • 0
    @edwrodrig Burn the heretic!

    (Only kidding).

    I think consistency is more important than the number of spaces.

    In my Pascal days at University I used 3 spaces.

    Starting work I used 2 spaces to fit in with colleagues.

    Then switched to 4 spaces to fit in with another team.

    I've found I prefer 4 spaces, but don't really mind so long as the indentation is consistent.
  • 1
    @Wildgoose I don't mind. I like the 80 cols rule, so every character is precious, specially when you have long meaningful function names. But that is my choice. Not a big deal.
  • 2
    @edwrodrig I follow the same rule, (actually 79 chars).

    One advantage of using 4 spaces is that it very quickly shows that your code is becoming too deeply indented.

    Keeping indentation levels down is a very good way of keeping unnecessary complexity from your code.

    Basically, it's fewer context switches for the CPU in your head.
  • 0
    Ffs, from now on I'll use space-tab-space-pooEmoji-space for my indentation since obviously people don't care about proper indentation...
  • 3
    They get payed hourly and waste time pressing spacebar.
  • 2
    Bullshit
  • 0
    Why should i press a key multiple times when i just can hit it one time? 😂
    The life is limited like the amount of chars for the commentinput 😂😂😂
  • 0
    Because they look more active
  • 1
    @Christian1998 I press tab and let my editor convert that to whatever the convention for the project is.
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