Spaces...

...or why you're an idiot if use tabs

Spaces conjour images of

Wonder

Human achievement

Shitty soft drink

Even shittier tablets

Basically poor life choices

Google autocomplete

The social commentary of our generation

A space is space is a space

A tab is whatever your editor decided was a good idea

Infact

Tabs is a recursive acronym

Tabs. Are. Bad. Spaces

True story

Tabs are so bad browsers introduced tab-size

So tabs could look more like spaces

The browser default for tab-size is 8...

Even browser vendors hate you for using tabs

But Ryan you say

You can set the tab-width to your liking

Gross

Nice

No serious OSS uses tabs

• Angular, nope
• React, nope
• Ember, nope
• jQuery, yes

The jQuery backlash is 100% due to their use of tabs, fact.

Not even...

dramatic, pause

find . -name '*' -type f -exec sed -i "" "s/  /  /g" {} \;

"...only a moron would use tabs to format their code."

— Jeff Atwood