It is SO STUPID that spaces are widely preferred for indentation in code.
For the past, I don’t know, two hours I’ve been trying to fix YAML formatting issues that could have been fixed without any human intervention if only tabs were used. (It’s a big file, hence the duration.) (I know YAML doesn’t support tabs. That’s kind of my point.)
I even reluctantly asked Gemini (forced upon me by work; I was hoping it would change my mind in this case) why anyone would prefer spaces. It said the same irrelevant thing most people say: because some tools don’t support tabs properly.
Know what that sounds like to me? A problem with the fucking tool.
I don’t know if this is the right place to post this, but I can’t think of a better option.
The classic programming holy war. As far as code is concerned, just have a formatter for the language, whichever tabs or spaces the formatter uses. I just hit tab and let the formatter decide. I most use Rust and I honestly had to lookup if rustfmt used tabs or spaces because I honestly didn’t remember.
As for the YAML part, that’s just because YAML sucks