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I hate MSVC (europe.pub)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you arguing that it's good design to have invisible characters behave differently or am I missing your point?

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't have to be invisible.

https://jonathanmh.com/p/showing-indentation-spaces-tabs-invisibles-in-various-editors/

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 6 months ago

A workaround doesn't excuse terrible design!

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -1 points 6 months ago

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.