You should probably watch Enderman. He unlocked Windows 11 Pro using Windows 7 Ultimate keys generated by ChatGPT. It took 3 regenerations, but a key did pass the online check.
Totally agree, all my { end up on the next line, 1st spot when starting a function, last character of the keyword when starting an if/for/… section. I even put the closing one on the same line when it’s single line, else either at the end of the closing line (when changing really old code) or same indent.
So indenting varies a lot, which makes most ‘new’ programmers go mental.
<span style="color:#323232;">while (my code)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> { I'll do it my way }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">if (! liked)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> { toughen-up }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">else
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> { get used to it
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> multi-line can go both ways...
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> }
</span>
I use tabs because I prefer 4-space indents and others might prefer 2-space indentation or the gross and unacceptable 6-space indentation.
If more than one person is working on a code base, there will likely be more than one preference, and with tabs everyone gets to just set their own tab width.
This is a legit observation. However, I would argue that spaces needs a set indentation width anyway, so if tabs had a set indentation width that coders are expected to maintain when aligning code, it wouldn’t make a difference. Enforcing that in practice may be different, but in theory it works.
Generally aligning stuff isn’t nice. But if you do, it’s tabs up to whatever level of indentation you’re at then spaces the rest of the way. So you wouldn’t have to assume a tab size. And the tabs and spaces have different semantic meaning (indent vs alignment) so mixing them makes sense. It’s even built into Jetbrains IDEs, where it’s called “Smart Tabs”.
It is always the worst code you wrote that survives. There's a terrible university dorm management software I wrote eight years ago as a student. They still use it. The crazy complicated test framework wrappers for some hardware I wrote five years ago. They still use it. The godawful and crazy complicated communication protocol I whipped up four years ago, still used in medical equipment today.
The crappy scripts that I wrote while teaching myself to code at an electrical engineering / architecture firm are used more often than the professional software I've built for FAANG and Fortune 500 companies since.
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