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 experience of entering the text isn’t the part to which I object.
Claiming that spaces as indentation are functionally equivalent to tabs is what inspires my objection.
I don’t think you gave an example in your original post as how tabs would have solved your problem, and dealing with yaml a lot myself I can’t imagine exactly what may have happened besides incorrect indentation
I get rich errors with yaml language server and I configure it with spec files for kubernetes manifests so it tells me exactly where my issues are