The seemingly simple fact was found in the raw data from Stack Overflow’s 2017 Developer Survey. 28,657 programmers responded to the question asking whether they use spaces or tabs. Spaces were ...

Analysis of the data from the Stack Overflow 2017 Developer Survey indicates that, ‘using spaces instead of tabs is associated with an 8.6% higher salary.’ Analysis of the data from the Stack Overflow ...

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For decades, the tabs versus spaces debate has been a heated discussion among coders. The issue is so widespread it crossed over to an episode of “Silicon Valley” last year, with Richard (Thomas ...

I always had tabs set to 4 in my .exrc, and screw the other guy who didn't do that and got hung-over lines - 8 characters is just too damn much whitespace down the left side of the screen, and two is ...

Are we still doing tabs vs. spaces? I ran into this with Make. It was long ago, but certain lines had to start with a tab. Others could use spaces. Someone has their gmacs setup so when you indented ...