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Yep. I have yet to hear a coherent argument against tabs.

It’s such a tiresome squabble.

Douglas Crockford made an interesting argument in favour of spaces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En8Ubs2k1O8

Vertical alignment of related lines.

If you indent with tabs, you can still align with spaces for vertical alignment.

That’s the whole point of tabs. How is this an argument against them?

Because it doesn't work with tabs, someone else will have a different tab-width.