I use spaces in vim/nano, I use tabs in my graphical IDE which translates it into spaces. I guess I'm on the spaces side, even though I don't really mind both. But seriously, why do people keep arguing about effing whitespaces...

People care because when you work with others and some use tabs and others spaces it makes a complete mess. Nothing lines up. So people must conform for a project to one style. But each prefer one method to the other.

I don't mind using any of them but prefer tabs because everyone can change tab size according to their need. When using spaces, they are same for everyone but people prefer different sizes of indentation for readability.

@CogInTheWheel project owner / lead of development of said project decides. end of discussion.

"Spaces" here but don't have any beef against "Tabs". I manage a team of 13 developers, 5 testers and 3 PMs. All the developers, ranging from new grads to seniors, use Tabs so I have learnt to compromise. But every once in a while, at the start of a project, I would s/tab/4tabs/g on files someone have just checked out. I would always get a WTF reaction once they vi the files, to which I reply "I've been telling you guys Tabs messes up your code. Switch to Spaces before it starts messing up your head too"

clang-format here, problem solved

Soft tabs ftw

@arcadesdude Probably written by a spaces-guy 😂

you can even configure vim to set spaces for tabs