Find me anyone who claims they use tabs for indentation, and I bet I’ll find at least one case where they’re using both tabs and spaces.
The only safe way to avoid war crimes is to avoid tabs.
Don’t IDEs just replace any tab with 4 spaces anyways? Pretty sure VSCode does
Why would I use spaces if I use tabs? Also, it seemd like a huge waste of time hitting the space bar so many times…
Why would I use spaces if I use tabs?
To comply with Python’s best practices:
https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/
Also, if you work on the Linux Kernel, you’ll see a mix of tabs and spaces:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/block/bfq-iosched.c#L390
Also, it seemd like a huge waste of time hitting the space bar so many times…
You use an editor that doesn’t auto-indent?
Linux kernel?
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#indentation
edit: oh python, nevermind
The kernel definitely mixes tabs and spaces:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/block/bfq-iosched.c#L390