@g what's ghc? gec-hydrocannabinol?
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@Felthry glasgow haskell compiler. so i guess i should have said haskell since being a layout sensitive language it's necessarily dictated by the standard

but yeah no one actually uses tabs in haskell because it's too much trouble, and actually indenting by 8 would make you fall off the page pretty fast

@g layout sensitive, like python you mean? we don't know haskell
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@g also yeah we got used to 2 because that's the standard tab width in MATLAB and Octave
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@Felthry basically yeah, but the rules are a bit different from python's ofc

@g well yeah, naturally, every language has its own syntax
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@curls i would have been surprised if anyone at all chose 1, 3, or more (and somoene did choose more, and i was surprised)
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@curls apparently the reason they chose more is that a tab is syntactically equivalent to eight spaces in haskell, a language that uses indentation for syntax, similar to python
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@Felthry well if you assume most people select based on preference, and 1 is too little, 5+ is too much, and 2 and 4 are ok values, than statistically 3 might be someone's preference, yet somehow no one selected that. feels like it just looks off somehow, maybe because it's an odd number.

@lorxus huh! unexpected

also unexpected that someone actually voted 3 finally
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@Felthry (And hard tabs let us use Really Wide Tabs without messing up anybody else!)

@Felthry Not for any particular language or because of weird language-specific stuff, we just use 8 for basically everything.

@Felthry Although honestly 8 might be a bit too wide, we've been kinda considering switching to 6.