aaaaand it gets creepier <| sep |> At least the NYSAC only gives out token suspensions as punishment . If it was Vegas they would be revenue raising and taking half his cash . <| sep |> Both in that video have no clue what they are talking about Tabs save space ? Bollocks , you save a few kb in the sourcecode , but source really does not matter at all , especially in the age of terabyte storage . But that aside You use tabs for the sake of all that is holy ! The reason is simple Some people prefer two or four or eight or whatever spaces for idents . That is personal style it does not matter . BUT if more people than one work on a project , they need to agree on how their code is supposed to look and there is a simple way to do it You just use tabs and then everyone can configure in their own IDE if they want tabs displayed as 1 or 2 or 20 spaces or whatever makes them happy . Further , you can easily backspace , remove the tabs , reformat the code , with Tab adds a tab and ShiftTab removes one etc . Whoever uses spaces no matter how many of them in any halfway decent editor that can handle tabs really needs a good sitting down . CherryBob . please don ' t do that , it ' s stupid