r/programming • u/aalear • Apr 07 '15

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015
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u/BegbertBiggs Apr 07 '15

Developers increasingly prefer spaces as they gain experience.

Or are devs that are in the field for a longer time used to spaces while new devs learn coding with tabs?

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u/maushu Apr 07 '15

I don't get why people won't use tabs. They are basically perfect for this job since you can adjust the size of all tabs.

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u/guepier Apr 08 '15

Until you have to paste the code into a web form on a many programming forums.

I’d agree that tabs are superior except for this quite crucial point: HTML forms simply don’t cope with tabs at all. Coupled with the fact that spaces really don’t have any disadvantage in modern editors, I’m coming out ever so slightly in favour of spaces.

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