Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really?
= Why Grown-Ups Don't Use Tabs[1] =* Joe likes 4-space tabs, I like 2-space tabs, and Jane is old-school with 8-space tabs.* All goes well until someone aligns something visually, like so:    [tab]void someNiceMethod(int myParamA,
    [tab][tab][tab][tab][space][space]int myParamB...);

(What you should do--if you're going to visually align at all--of course, is    [tab]void someNiceMethod(int myParamA,
    [tab]                    int myParamB...);

... but humans are humans and IDEs aren't created equal, so this doesn't happen consistently.)* Now it aligns perfectly on my machine, looks mostly ok on Joe's machine, and is ON MARS on Jane's machine.Thus one-or-more of three futures happens:* Someone implements a code re-formatter into version control* Someone re-aligns the code, starting the process over again.* Someone calls a meeting and demands we all switch to spaces AND IDEs that let you treat spaces like tabs.[1]: This came up last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14560042) and this comment is shamelessly copied from that discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14561223).