Yesterday, I shared some spicy takes. A few were particularly controversial—most notably, that I correct Gif the correct way (with a soft G)—but I also got a lot of emails asking me to elaborate on a few of them.
Today, I wanted to talk about how tabs are objectively better than spaces. This won’t take long.
Tabs let you define how big you want each indent to be, and spaces do not.
Honestly, my editor (Neovim) just picks between tabs and spaces for me, so I just end up using whatever’s already there. The only language where I’ll explicitly use one is Haskell, just because spaces there allow me to keep everything nice and lined up.
Honestly, my editor (Neovim) just picks between tabs and spaces for me, so I just end up using whatever’s already there. The only language where I’ll explicitly use one is Haskell, just because spaces there allow me to keep everything nice and lined up.