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Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com (gomakethings.com)

submitted 1 year ago by mac@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another accessibility reason for tabs: when using a braille display, each space takes up one character cell, so indenting with four spaces eats up four cells. Indenting three times with four spaces each eats up 12 characters already. Tabs only take one character cell each, so three indents = three character cells used.

The fact that there (I assume?) isn't a braille oriented text editor that can handle space-based indentation in a smarter way is a bit depressing. Maybe the solution should be better tools based around accessibility rather than convincing everyone to switch to tabs, which is a project that will just never succeed.

[–] ck_@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 year ago

rather than convincing everyone to switch to tabs, which is a project that will just never succeed.

Few years back, Coraline Ada Ehmke went on a one person crusade opening a pull request on every major Github repository to adopt a code of conduct for the project, detailing the complex rules of how the humans in that microcosm of a project should interact with one another. Today, it's the norm.

Arguing that it's invincible to convince people at large to adopt tabs over spaces with good arguments is a ridiculous statement. All you are doing is making up excuses for not having to care.