Only if a person's machine is set to a tab size of four spaces. By this logic, we would need eight spaces for the people with a larger tab size of eight on their machines so they could be 1:1. Minimizing horizontal space is ideal as not everyone has huge horizontal monitor space to work with. But, everyone has infinite vertical space with scrolling.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think they mean the word 'tabs'

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago

oh lol, I missed that =p

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If your code takes up so much horizontal space with 4-space tabs, you're putting too much on one line or indenting too deep. 4-space tabs keeps your line length manageable.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

If you have to nest more than 2 layers, rewrite your code.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Or you're using four spaces per tab, just throwing that out there. =p