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[-] mundane_party@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Tab characters are space efficient and configurable for each person in their editor. Space characters are consistent between developers.

Solution: each tabspace indent is a random width, making it both inconsistent and non-configurable. Also, each character is the size of at least four regular characters, so it’s not even space efficient

this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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