I think that in many topics like static/dynamic functional/imperative tabs/spaces a lot of people hold very strong, almost religious beliefs. It’s really difficult to debate it because people’s opinions are often based on personal revelation like experiences. To avoid wasting our energy in unproductive flame wars, different channels where people don’t have to argue over what they perceive as basic to their view - will be much more productive and welcoming and can possibly do more to encourage diversity than any other action.

#dynamicfunctionalspaces .. you're welcome.

I’ll be at #staticfunctional heh 🙂 But I’d suggest to start with a small step of less specific divisions. Broader strokes like #functional-programming and #dynamic-languages would be a better first step imho

you'll still need two channels, one for tabs and one for spaces

I don’t really think that spaces/tabs is an important issue. I’m at the neither camp personally 🙂

then again for vim/emacs/etc; you can't solve religious divides by dividing up the channels, so yes, I agree that broader categories are better and we're gonna have to practice religious tolerance!

Staying on topic, I’ll say that counter to vim/emacs or tabs/spaces I’ve seen here flame wars about the other topics. Flame-wars give a “macho” environment impression and I’d think it’s not beneficial for inclusivity. Having channels as a way of importing assumptions is a good way to avoid such flame-wars imho and perhaps it should be initiated as necessary after each flame-war in #C5T9GPWFL etc

(Replied here: https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/CEXED56UR/p1588601748254200)