Programmers Who Indent With Spaces Earn More Than Those Using Tabs

According to this report <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/according-to-statistics-programming-with-spaces-instead-of-tabs-makes-you-rich/>, the latest Stack Overflow developer survey shows a wide gap between the earnings of those who use spaces to indent their code, versus those who use tabs. Speaking as someone who moved from tabs to spaces about a decade ago, I don’t understand why the author seems so cut up about this. It makes about as much sense as vi/vim users complaining about Emacs users. (The guy also seems to put Perl and PHP on the same intellectual level, which I think tells you all you need to know about the state of his mental health...) And he forgot to link to the actual survey results, which are here <https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017>. I can’t see where he got the information about the correlation between tabs/spaces and income--all I can see is that among professional developers, spaces are more popular, whereas among all developers, tabs are more popular.

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And he forgot to link to the actual survey results ...
Another report from The Register <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/16/spaces_vs_tabs/> links to the original Stack Overflow blog post on the results <https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-make-money-use-tabs/> from which you can find the original raw data <https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2017&utm_content=blog-link&utm_term=data> if you want to do your own analyses, on this or any of the surveys of past years.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro