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Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com (gomakethings.com)
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[–] xep@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I could only get everyone who works on the thing I work on to use a whitespace visualizer, it would be enough. We can fight about tabs or spaces after we get rid of all the unnecessary trailing ones.

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You've a .editorconfig in your repo right? Right?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

In case folks aren't aware, https://editorconfig.org/

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm glad someone linked this. Should be further up in this thread.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I created a tool for removing trailing whitespace across the whole project. After cleanup now it's at least only a matter of pointing it out in reviews and occasionally fixing landed sources.