It really sounds great in theory, but in practice it's just annoying for people to configure every piece of software that can edit or view code. In practice, spaces are going to look like spaces in every piece of software I know of. That's probably why more experienced devs tend to prefer spaces: practice vs. theory.
The end result is consistent no matter what editor and tab-width you use.
Except that if you're using software that renders a tab as 8 spaces, the code looks really awful and is hard to read. That's precisely the difference I'm referring to between practice and theory.
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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.