However people insist on using spaces. Like between words in sentences or between tokens in a line of code.
Spaces are better than mixing tabs and spaces, especially with "modern" (newer than 30 years old) tools. Especially if you use these editors enough that you are never indenting manually with backspace or tab/spacebar.
So the options are tabs+spaces mixed together or just spaces unless you are dealing with tab delimited files with no spaces in them, which is rare.
The tradeoff is you lose the ability for different people working on the same thing to see different indentation levels. In exchange you don't regularly get your formatting confusing messed up because of some kind of invisible control character confusion.
However people insist on using spaces. Like between words in sentences or between tokens in a line of code.
Spaces are better than mixing tabs and spaces, especially with "modern" (newer than 30 years old) tools. Especially if you use these editors enough that you are never indenting manually with backspace or tab/spacebar.
So the options are tabs+spaces mixed together or just spaces unless you are dealing with tab delimited files with no spaces in them, which is rare.
The tradeoff is you lose the ability for different people working on the same thing to see different indentation levels. In exchange you don't regularly get your formatting confusing messed up because of some kind of invisible control character confusion.