Tabs instead of spaces.

cake-rusk · 2025-09-29T07:33:36 1759131216

Spaces have won already. It is the default setting across code editors now.

000ooo000 · 2025-09-29T09:30:26 1759138226

If your code editor told you to use PHP, would you?

foofoo12 · 2025-09-29T07:55:12 1759132512

Would that mean it's good taste?

sparkie · 2025-09-29T09:35:21 1759138521

Elastic tabstops are good taste. Tabs should tabulate.

But limited editor support, and some implementations have poor performance.

aitchnyu · 2025-09-29T11:40:29 1759146029

One user is able to fit more code into LLM context window since tabs take one token and spaces take 4.

zahlman · 2025-09-29T20:24:22 1759177462

Did these systems really not learn to recognize a run of four spaces as a single token, despite all the Python source code fed to them?

cap11235 · 2025-09-29T11:45:47 1759146347

For one tokenizer, a couple years ago.