JavaScript: tab indents

tab-indent-rant.js

// Coders, if your goal is to align foo and bar, using a <tab> character is
// incorrect. If your goal, however, is to create an additional level of
// indentation, then go you. Either way, with a tab size other than 4, this
// looks like shit.

var foo = 1,
	bar = 2;

To everybody who writes “mixing spaces with tabs is evil” and "tabs are semantic, spaces are presentation" to fix that. At first, using both does create the mixture, "which is evil". Secondly, you, as big experts in presentation, tell me: isn't HTML a special presentational format? How do you use spaces for indentation in HTML? What?

Spaces are for (inter-word) spaces, tabs are for indentation. As of github, it has a perfect solution to "set the tab size". It just stops to work outside the Ace editor, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8833953/how-to-change-tab-size-on-github. The solution is to save the option along with edited post.

The same answer in StackExchange http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/72/63834. These are you, spaces people, who confuse presentation with data and create chaos.

BTW, I have made a tabs <-> spaces conversion utility, http://valjok.blogspot.com/2014/07/indentation-correction-for-exposing.html. I was forced to create it intentionally for gist formatting.