Do all three of them still treat tabs and spaces as functionally different? If so then they’re all in the bottom category.
Today’s programmers…
Back in the day people knew how to configure their code editors.
Are you arguing that it’s good design to have invisible characters behave differently or am I missing your point?
It doesn’t have to be invisible.
https://jonathanmh.com/p/showing-indentation-spaces-tabs-invisibles-in-various-editors/
A workaround doesn’t excuse terrible design!
Yes!
Yes!There’s a reason that stuff exists.
So that when someone used to tabs, does something in a spacebar-project, they can see that they will need a
clang-format.
Oh you use an indentation sensitive language? Err… my condolences.
They might be working on an old codebase with maintainers who yell at you if you try to standardize formatting because “whitespace changes pollute diffs” (smh, programmers who don’t know how to configure their diff tools).
I really like Ruby’s rake. It’s an actually sane language and quick to learn. No idiosyncratic shell scripts cobbled together. The makefile is written in plain Ruby. That also makes it super powerful to adapt to your needs. Nor parsing XML. Just load your rake file into your interactive Ruby shell (I’m partial to pry), try things, test it. Our time for debugging build errors dropped to a fraction.
I have used it build C++, Objective-C, and Java projects for a medium sized company. Before that we used ant with XML build files from hell.
