because they know how to configure an IDE correctly

link to study

if they knew how to configure their IDE they would set the indent length to their preference and use tabs

https://www.businessinsider.com/programmers-who-use-spaces-get-paid-more-than-those-who-use-tabs-2017-6?IR=T

not a controversy

not a raging one

i also dont think google has the best "pro" coders

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this is a stackoverflow survey

not a representative sample

my guess?

the real niggas who get paid more to code arent answering faggot questions for free on SO

```Obviously, using spaces is not the fundamental reason why those folks are making more money. The survey points to a correlation, not a cause. There are other reasons that developers who use spaces are are doing work that pays more, but the data provided no real clues as to what those reasons were.

```

you don't say

isn't that obvious.

this is the kind of dogmatic faggotry i mentioned to @MountainMan

yep

I explained you the reasoning behind spaces. You can use tabs

I'm a tab nigga

foh spaced out coders

what are the chances a whole team of coders are all in an office on company computers, each using their editor of choice?

im not going to walk onto a team and refuse to use anything other than Atom

I can use the editor they like and use tabs or spaces if they like too

once youre on a job theres no debate over preference

sure, Google Java coders use spaces

idrc what google or java people do

if you code java for google, arent you basically a janitor?

I can look into the Python style guide too

i probly wont learn much python

*Never use tabs or mix tabs and spaces. In cases of implied line continuation, you should align wrapped elements either vertically, as per the examples in the line length section; or using a hanging indent of 4 spaces, in which case there should be nothing after the open parenthesis or bracket on the first line.*

*changes indent length to* ``1``

happy now?

spaces waste time

no, you don't see the problem as it seems

sure, im retarded

i dont understand alignment

I would never use spaces for editors like nano, or vim without plugin

youre saying my coder's faggot FOSS IDE is gonna show him the code the wrong way because he's not using what i fucking told him to

and that we should take more time typing because of it

the coder might have a different indent size and you most likely mix it with spaces for some parts like two lined code segments (two lined strings are bad too, but this is another story)

then your code looks different