Tabs all the way! It's just simpler and keeps everything aligned. Software engineer since 1966. Started with Algol 60, brief time with Fortran. I started C programming with Whitesmiths, which vertically aligned and indented opening + closing braces. Much easier to understand program structure. Later moved the braces out to controlling statement indent per newer standards, but still vertically aligned.
I would love to hear what you mean about accurate. People have a belief in something because they've always done it that way but never considered something else might make more sense.
@@sacredfroakie1659 As I explained in the video, it does matter when you work on projects with other people. ie: You decided you like 3 spaces and I like 8. Yes, I can set my editor to add in the extra spaces but what I also did is I modified every line of the program to add 5 additional characters times the number of indents and you can no longer find my actual code changes. Tabs on the other hand were created specifically for indention and as a result there is only 1 tab physically there and all I need to do is tell my editor I would like to see a larger gap to represent that tab and neither of us will need to be offended.
And that is why you use IDE that handles all spaces/tabs/tabs-to-spaces behind the scene. As for one symbol vs many - irrelevant in compiled languages. Also - standards. Who uses 3 spaces? It is 4. Spaces over tabs.
@@lifebarier Why even go through all the gymnastics needed to handle spaces when you can just use tabs and have all of the problems caused by spaces resolved without having to lobotomize every modern IDE?
