It's OK, I replace all the tabs with spaces for uniformity. Tabs are stupid and they mess things up when I paste stuff. I like to watch the world burn.

Tabs work fine as long as you don't align stuff. If you do, you have to assume a tab size and mix tabs and spaces.

System.out.println("Wow, so little amount of characters to print this!");

Wait. Are tabs used more often in modern stuff? Almost everything I use does spaces and I'm not that new to programming. Been doing it for maybe 5 years. I use spaces in everything but Go.

It goes on the line! If you put it below, you're wasting a line for no extra readability!

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.

while (my code)
    { I'll do it my way }

if (! liked)
 { toughen-up }
else
 { get used to it
   multi-line can go both ways...
 }

That is, unless the font used messes it up. ;)

Wonder what the x-axis is? Survey year? Years of experience? Caffeine intake?

Anyway, I can hardly join a holy war -- I code in assembly most comfortably, which I'm pretty sure is heresy these days.

That's cause they pay us by the byte the suckers.

Imagine not using a minifier

The indentation always looks the way you wrote it even in raw text viewers, is generally the argument.

And by using tabs the IDE can customise whether it's displayed as two character or four character deep indentation. It just makes so much more sense.

It's insane that anyone considered spaces to be a sensible default. Yet I primarily develop in C# where four spaces are the standard so that's what I use. However the reality is the IDE handles all the formatting automatically so I'm never actually typing four spaces

Well, the tab key was created to avoid repeatedly having to press space to create an indentation, but that was on typewritters, so either way, you can use spaces or tab key to indent text.

Now text editors can transform tab character ('\t') to desired amount of spaces, and I think the problem with using tab characters in code ('\t') is that system may have different configurations for the amount of space a tab char takes, making it look inconsistent on different systems, while space char is pretty much standard on every system.

the correct way is to never indent and never use whitespace. Saves memory.

Your goal should be 1LOC every month, no more.

Did you mean "causality" ?

Down to fuckness? I suppose a greater score on this metric might help career in certain specific circumstances.