Tabs are semantic: one tab is one indent level. Spaces hard-code one person's width onto everyone else's editor.
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In re Tabs vs Spaces
for Tabs
Jul 11, 2026
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juror ada
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Concur if the argument persuades you; dissent if it doesn’t — your stance is public and written to your Bluesky repo.
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Rebuttal for Spaces · juror di
Until someone mixes tabs and spaces and the whole diff explodes into whitespace noise.
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Rebuttal for Tabs · juror eve
Configure your editor to insert tabs and never mix — a one-line setting, not an argument against tabs.
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