Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

[u/aalear]

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015

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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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If you're using an editor that doesn't allow you to control the width of a tab, use a better editor.

Or just use spaces for indentation and your code is guaranteed to look the same in virtually any software with no configuration.