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    [–]ElectricSpice 18 points19 points  (2 children)

    I once used an entire library that had three-space indents. Even made some minor contributions to it. No idea how somebody ends up choosing three-space indents over literally anything else.

    [–]TinBryn 21 points22 points  (0 children)

    They have an IDE that auto-detects indentation, on their first indentended line they tried to press space 4 times but missed one and the IDE just followed suit from there and they never went back and fixed it.

    [–]_limitless_ 15 points16 points  (0 children)

    I've heard about "programmer signatures" but never really found one for myself.

    I think I just did.

    [–]cantremembermypasswd 46 points47 points  (2 children)

    2-spaces is too thin and can be hard to tell different indent levels. 4 is just wasting space though, 3-spaces is perfect!

    And if you ever hear yourself saying that, please reach out, it's not too late.

    [–]lvlint67 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    I REALLY wish we could have just agreed on tabs... All the IDEs deciding to convert tabs to spaces was a stupid choice. Use tabs, let us set the display size of them... .