Tabs v/s Spaces: An analysis on why tabs are better (codementor.io)

Quite a timely post in the wake of Stack Overflow's analysis:

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-...

Tabs would be better if (a) they were used consistently in the code base (very little people pay attention to whitespaces, so code degrades quickly with this regard) and (b) editors actually supported inserting tabs for indent and inserting spaces for alignment (there are cases when a line starts with indent, which is then followed with spaces for alignment; none of the editors in the wild supports this).

Until (b) happens, tabs are just worse everywhere.