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Why software contains so much invisible whitespace
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Your massive software updates are mostly just structured nothingness. Because human programmers need code to be visually readable, they use endless tabs, spaces, and line breaks to format it. When code is compiled, the machine ignores all of this whitespace. So a significant portion of those multi-gigabyte installations on your hard drive are just invisible indentations keeping a developer from losing their mind.
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