“Tabs vs. Spaces” Is All Sorts of Messed Up

Author's impetus for writing this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31908169 Prettier is considering making tabs the default in 3.0 (twitter.com/rich_harris) 9 points by eatonphil 15 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31926124 Change UseTabs to True by Default (github.com/prettier) 4 points by ipmb 14 days ago

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341354 Nobody talks about the real reason to use tabs over spaces (reddit.com) 122 points by kbr on July 3, 2019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20381027 [dupe] Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces (reddit.com) 228 points by pagade on July 8, 2019

I include the dupe as a reference because of how much it was upvoted, five days after the original post.

That was an interesting read, thanks. I'm trying to remember why I chose spaces in the first place. Was it because of something related to Markdown? Hmm.

i use space-tabs to tabs-space my space-tabs, like a real professional. _