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PlainName:
That's has to be the best example yet of whataboutery.

Someone:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on February 19, 2022, 10:41:59 pm ---
--- Quote ---i leave the indentation to the ide to figure out
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That's kind of like leaving the driving to full autopilot - sure, it's nice to offload some tedium but you'll be stuffed when your motor goes in for repair and you realise you don't know how to drive the loaner.
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and the reason most code bases end up with the worst solution: mixture of tabs and spaces. Its these idiots that assume everyone forevermore will use their exact IDE (version, platform, etc) and their choice of settings (probably default, but not always).

All tabs, no worries,
All spaces, no worries,

But then mindless user with their "helpful" IDE that hides this and makes it look pretty for them starts adding in a random mixture of tabs and spaces.

Different environments disagreeing on how many spaces to each tab and a mixture of tabs and spaces = pain

Now, trying to get people to agree on the first half of that equation is probably the actual issue, 2,3,4,8  spaces to represent a tab? (the video posed in the OP says 8 ). Until then you cannot use tabs to bring anything after some ragged text into alignment, only for the start of line before other characters.

Someone:

--- Quote from: Picuino on February 19, 2022, 01:20:22 pm ---That is so and we all assume it for political or religious opinions, but it never ceases to amaze me that it also occurs in things as banal as spaces and tabs.
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You forgot the special example that only exists on this forum: "zooming out" on an oscilloscope!

Someone:

--- Quote from: Bud on February 19, 2022, 03:08:53 pm ---For neatly looking text it is difficult to use spaces with proportional fonts. OK with fixed width fonts. TAB helps align lines of text correctly.
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People who want to use proportional fonts in programming:

eugene:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 19, 2022, 11:05:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: eugene on February 19, 2022, 01:23:15 pm ---It's hard for me to take the video seriously when they're using Apple computers.

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Yeah, I mean, only a handful of the world's biggest tech companies ...
[blah blah blah]

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For the humor impaired, I was making a joke about religious technical opinions.

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