So people who contribute to open source use spaces more.Thiss is probably because in a collaborative environment, you can’t guarantee how tabs will look on all systems, and it may look horribly on some. An open source project is most likely to enforce a standard, and that standard kind of has to be spaces.
It makes me wonder what portion of the stack overflow survey is from people who aren’t working on collaborative projects at work.
Someone here made a longer explanation in a blog post why it’s that way and what this corresponds to: https://evelinag.com/blog/2017/06-20-stackoverflow-tabs-spaces-and-salary/index.html
So people who contribute to open source use spaces more.Thiss is probably because in a collaborative environment, you can’t guarantee how tabs will look on all systems, and it may look horribly on some. An open source project is most likely to enforce a standard, and that standard kind of has to be spaces.
It makes me wonder what portion of the stack overflow survey is from people who aren’t working on collaborative projects at work.
But with tabs each contributor is free to choose how the indent looks. If it looks horrible on some system, that’s a configuration issue.
Isn’t that exactly the point of using tabs?