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The annual Stack Overflow developer surveys often include lots of bad news. "People still use PHP," for example, is a recurring and distressing theme. "Perl exists" is another.
But never before has the survey revealed something as devastatingly terrible as the 2017 survey. Using PHP and Perl are matters of taste. Extremely masochistic taste, certainly, but nobody is wrong for using those languages; it's just the programming equivalent of enjoying Adam Sandler movies. But the 2017 survey goes beyond taste; it goes into deep philosophical questions of right and wrong, and it turns out that being wrong pays more than being right.
Developers who use tabs to indent their code, developers who fight for truth and justice and all that is good in the world, those developers have a median salary of $43,750.
But developers who use spaces to indent their code, developers who side with evil and probably spend all day kicking kittens and punching puppies? Their median salary is $59,140.
Source: ArsTechnica
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18 2017, @04:45AM
I hate mixing tabs and spaces so bad that I replace all white space with tabs. On a serious note, I don't care as long as it is consistent. Back when I did care, I just set the appropriate hooks with scripts that translated tabs to spaces and back as necessary. I guess if I had to pick, I'm a fan of the idea that items in languages should do one thing, therefore using tabs for indentation and spaces to separate tokens best fits that; and, by being consistent with usage you could help spot errors, like bad copy-pastes or misplaced new-lines.