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.

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Re: Tabspaces?

[gfxguy]

Python is my go-to scripting language when possible, but it's the one thing about it that bothers me - the anal retentive way it forces you to follow Guido's formatting standards. Yes, there is some choice, but when you figure out that tabs make more sense you become an outcast in the python community.