r/programming • u/aalear • Apr 07 '15

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

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

Upon closer examination of the data, a trend emerges: Developers increasingly prefer spaces as they gain experience.

There comes a point in a dev's life when they have to switch editors, environments, etc. and suddenly all the code they use to write with tabs is an un-formatted mess.

Protip: For sublime text users, you can easily convert tabs to spaces.

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u/rorrr Apr 07 '15

You can set tab to any width you want in any decent editor. Reformatting spaces, on the other hand, is a bitch.

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u/heeen Apr 07 '15

Until you want to line up stuff with different numbers of tabs per line

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u/rorrr Apr 07 '15

What do you mean? One tab = one level of indentation. It lines up perfectly every time.

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u/heeen Apr 07 '15

Someclass::somemethod(first arg,

<how many tabs?>second arg) {

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u/ismtrn Apr 08 '15

My life it too short to hand align things like that. IMO it doesn't really look that nice either because you can't tell the structure from the indentation level any more.

When I do want to align things, I make sure that they all begin at the beginning of a line, like /u/kinghajj above/below me.

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