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Cost saving measure. This sort of emotionalism is why engineers need to kept out of the C-suite.

How is it a cost saving measure? Or are you being sarcastic? Hard to tell over text!

Yes, I'm joking. I also feel hurt by 2 space indents.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but if you're serious, I'm pretty sure the OP is talking metaphorically. It's just a slight annoyance he's not "emotional" about it.

I also fail to see how someone who is annoyed by code that doesn't follow well established standards is somehow not a good fit in the C-suite.

Space bloat.

Then there is Go and C#.

I guess they haven't read https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#indentation

"Use 4 spaces per indentation level."

Seems random. This file has both 2 and 4: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/trust_and...

I assume they copied it from Google.

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Google-use-2-spaces-for-Pytho...

i think back in the day they copied googles python style guide