Here’s a debate that refuses to die: given a choice, would you rather use spaces or tabs? An episode of Silicon Valley last season had a bit on this. Now we have more data to analyze people’s behavior. A Google developer has looked into 400, 000 GitHub repositories — 1 billion files, 14 terabytes to find that programmers with interest in specific languages do seem to prefer either tabs or spaces. Spoiler alert: space wins, like all the time. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs?
