Why spaces and no tabs?
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Dominaezzz
09/20/2018, 6:40 PMWhy spaces and no tabs?
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Czar
09/20/2018, 6:40 PMbecause holy war 🙂
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karelpeeters
09/20/2018, 6:40 PMDammit here we go.
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Ruckus
09/20/2018, 6:40 PMKotlin is designed for your success: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-make-money-use-tabs/
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hudsonb
09/20/2018, 6:41 PMhttps://media.giphy.com/media/pUeXcg80cO8I8/giphy.gif▾
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Dominaezzz
09/20/2018, 6:42 PMWhat I meant was, why is there a preference in the style guide?
Dominaezzz
09/20/2018, 6:43 PMI don't think Kotlin should be picking a side.
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karelpeeters
09/20/2018, 6:43 PMConsistency is definitely more important than either of the options themselves, and in the end Idea has to pick a default anyway, might as well specify it.
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Dominaezzz
09/20/2018, 6:45 PMHmmm, fair enough. There should've been a vote or something for which side to pick though.
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Czar
09/20/2018, 6:45 PMMeh, money isn't all, I'm sticking with tabs, they're much more versatile. 😛
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Dominaezzz
09/20/2018, 6:45 PMBecause tabs are clearly built for indentation. 😜
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karelpeeters
09/20/2018, 6:45 PMWell spaces is the most used on GitHub, in Java land in general and it was already the default for Idea in Java.
karelpeeters
09/20/2018, 6:46 PMAgain, consistency consistency consistency!
karelpeeters
09/20/2018, 6:46 PMI hate that spaces won too but I don't notice the difference anyway with how good the indentation in Idea has become.
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Dominaezzz
09/20/2018, 6:47 PMSpaces might be most used but what do Kotliners want though.
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Czar
09/20/2018, 6:47 PMTo be honest, if I was the company behind an IDE it would've had tabs (which is my preference) as default. So in case of IntelliJ it's probably just that Jetbrains developers chose spaces for themselves at some point and naturally made them default 🙂
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Dominaezzz
09/20/2018, 6:48 PMI don't notice spaces, til' I have to move my cursor through them lol.
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Czar
09/20/2018, 6:49 PMI also wonder how many developers use spaces (got used to spaces, rather) just because it came as the default setting in their IDE
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Dominaezzz
09/20/2018, 6:49 PMChicken and egg, I guess.
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Czar
09/20/2018, 6:50 PManyway my solution was to become a teamlead and put tabs in the team style guide 🙂 🧌
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Shawn
09/20/2018, 6:50 PMtabs were the default in my first “editor”
Shawn
09/20/2018, 6:50 PMI am fully aboard the spaces train now, however
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Dominaezzz
09/20/2018, 6:51 PMHmmm.....
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karelpeeters
09/20/2018, 6:51 PMI used to care when I started out, I was missing the bigger picture I think. One day I reinstalled Idea and I couldn't be bothered to find the setting...
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Shawn
09/20/2018, 6:52 PMI mean, big same - it doesn’t end up mattering that much, and if I ever end up working for a shop that picked tabs in their style guide I won’t throw a fit
Shawn
09/20/2018, 6:53 PMbut if I were writing up a style guide like the JB folks were and had to pick between the two, I’m going with spaces
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hudsonb
09/20/2018, 8:54 PMI use w/e my IDE inserts when I hit the tab key
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Alowaniak
09/21/2018, 7:32 AMI like to set my tab width on 4 and then do 3 spaces and 1 tab
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