I have preferred spaces to tabs since the mid nineties because everyone sees it the same. With tabs people use 2 4 and 8, which can make my tendency to over indent code cause more trouble.

I will say I have been doing go recently and have been forced into tabs and camelCase, and have found consistency really is better than The Right Way.

For make, since using protobufs and code gen and being allergic to checking generated code in, have found make to be nicer than I remember it.