What's better tabs or spaces ?
I don't know the implications of each.

Have you learned nothing from Sillicon Valley

I'm not sure which one's better, but it's great fun to argue about!

(I use spaces as most text editors will display them properly)

I usually use tabs. It's easy to instantly change the amount of spaces a tab should display in any good editor.

But supposably there's something dangerous about using tabs, and I wanted to know what it was.

They have zero implications. Just another holy war.

Tabs or spaces work fine, so long as you're consistent. However, I will always argue in favor of spaces.

Tabs make code more difficult to read on e.g. github because you cannot change their width. They also make aligning difficult for non-multiples of tab_width (ex: multiple declarations of type char, multiline array literal within a comparison, etc.). Tabs lead to other readability issues as well, and there are usually ways to avoid them, but not always.

Of course, everything also turns into a giant unreadable disaster if devs mix tabs and spaces, so consistency is more important than your choice.

@Root gofmt indents with tabs and aligns with spaces. And since everyone uses it, there can't be ambiguity for go code. Javascript though is a different beast 😨 I also stumble upon files in the codebase that were written using different editor settings (exactly because they have spaces, which is 2 spaces but I like to see them as 4, so I need to reformat)