If tabs vs spaces wasn't documented, future generations would never believe it.

Tabs are superior, because you can adjust the width of a tab. You can't do that with spaces. The fact that a tab can look different on someone else's computer is a feature, not a bug. People who prefer spaces are fucking heathens and React developers.

It's wonderful to know that tabs won that fight, since the existence of tabs is to indent to the next tab stop.

What do most coding agents do? That’s what wins

Set your tab to 4 spaces. Done.

shows at the end of the day Richard never really felt the agi; built superintelligence but never stuck it into IDE autocomplete.

Tabs are objectively better

I once worked with a team that set tabs to 3 spaces. Every loc felt like a crime.

I remember watching this episode and being like "people use fucking spaces?!"

It would have been more funny if the last line was, "Who indents at 8, anyway?"

In theory tabs are better but there's one big problem: People keep teying to align things and tabs don't have a defined width. For instance you cannot do this with tabs. With tabs it's also harder to define a maximum line limit.

Spaces are better. You can tell because the tabs guy is a cunt.

Wow, one place where I can follow objectively smart people. Tabs and tab stops people. Emacs too lol!

Why would I hit a button multiple times when I could just hit a button one time?

The people who used the spaces are psychopathic and will surely have psychopathic ways of using the agents

I felt personally offended when she pressed spaces like that at the end

And they still didn't grasp the essence of the matter: that indentation and a space are not semantically the same thing. A space is placed between things, while indentation is set back from something; a space is “space,” while indentation is “tab.”

Ironic that they are both on macbooks

I mean, he's right, though. It's cleaner.

ROLF

spaces are so much better it hurts

The Vim part is the most craziest thing

If anyone is this particular they have some sort of personality disorder. Just defer to the most obnoxious person on the team and tell them "yes, you're so smart and brilliant". Just make sure you check their ego once in a while because they will develop a god complex eventually.

Spaces, because my code was written the way I want it to be consumed. My code was art to be admired at 2 space indents.

It was outdated long before this episode though

Tf he saying. It does not matter for compiled languages. I know he is working with compression and every byte matters but he doesn't know how compilers work?

If you use spaces you’re genuinely retarded

the silly thing about this is that she was pressing it 8 times, just press tab and the editor makes the spaces for you. also 8 spaces? its maximum 4, preferably 2

For indentation, tabs all the way.

What are we doing now that will end up that way?

richard is right.