400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? (medium.com)

Here's a debate that refuses to die: given a choice, would you rather use spaces or tabs? An episode of Silicon Valley last season had a bit on this. Now we have more data to analyze people's behavior. A Google developer has looked into 400,000 GitHub repositories -- 1 billion files, 14 terabytes to find that programmers with interest in specific languages do seem to prefer either tabs or spaces. Spoiler alert: space wins, like all the time.

Comments

I always use tabs...

[QuietLagoon]

... except for the times I use spaces.

Re:Systematic Suppression

[Anonymous Coward]

All this proves is that we Tabbers are being universally and systematically supressed by the Spacers (except in the Go community).

That's because when the Spacers kick the Tabbers out of the building they shout "Just go!", and the Tabbers think that's a language recommendation.

one thing the tabs and spaces folks agree on

[dlang_rocks]

https://www.emacswiki.org/emac...

People use spaces four times as often as tabs!

[Richard Kirk]

(snigger)

Re:what he said

[VAXcat]

"Program logic should not be governed by invisible things." Funny, that statement also sums up my attitude about religion...