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

Posted by msmash on from the big-data dept.

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.

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  1. I always use tabs... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... except for the times I use spaces.

  2. one thing the tabs and spaces folks agree on by dlang_rocks · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. People use spaces four times as often as tabs! by Richard+Kirk · · Score: 4, Funny

    (snigger)