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Do you use tabs or spaces? Just joking, but:

The point is that our industry has a lot of opinionated individuals that tend to disagree on fundamentals, implementations, designs, etc., for good reasons! That's why we have thousands of frameworks, hundreds of databases, hundreds of programming languages, etc. Not everything our industry does is profit driven, or even rational.



FWIW, all my toy languages consider U+0009 HORIZONTAL TABULATION in a source file to be an invalid character, like any other control character except for U+000A LINE FEED (and also U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN but only when immediately before a LINE FEED).


I’d be a python programmer now if they had done this. It’s such an egregiously ridiculous foot gun that I can’t stand it.




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