• spiderplant
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    1 year ago

    Spaces do not allow the viewer of code to choose how wide the indents are, this is dictated by the developer.

    Most IDEs allow users to customise how many spaces to display tab indents as. Doing so the other way around may cause issues with languages based on whitespaces such as python.