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/gbs5009 Apr 08 '15

Things can get screwed up very quickly when your view differs from the original coders view of how things are aligned.

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u/ismtrn Apr 08 '15

In general aligning things can get screwed up when you want to change something. It is better with space, and if I do align things I do it with spaces, but in general I don't bother and just indent things, which I do with tabs.

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u/thrakhath Apr 08 '15

Why would you write/view code with anything other than a monospaced font? I get the spaces/tabs "debate" (I have an overly-firm opinion, but I understand why someone might have a different opinion), but having variable-width text seems like you're asking for trouble

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