Why would either tabs or spaces be better than the other? Isn&#x27;t that one of those pedantic style debates that often come down to a matter of personal preference? I&#x27;d get rather annoyed if someone on my team was constantly changing the indentation from tabs to spaces or vice versa every time they opened a file.<p>To elaborate on the author&#x27;s reasoning for using spaces, people sometimes mix spaces with tabs in the indentation unknowingly. If you&#x27;re not using the author&#x27;s tab size on your machine, the code doesn&#x27;t format well at all and if you want to convert to spaces you&#x27;d have to manually edit a lot of things. There&#x27;s also the issue with aligning things as well, which spaces are more consistent for as well. At least with spaces you can see the author&#x27;s original intention and then reformat it as you wish.