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The Case Against Character Count Line Limits
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- smidgeon 1y agoIt probably all started with typewriters (and teleprinters). Nope, it started with books where 500 years of typographic practice has taught us that anything above 80 characters a line quickly becomes unreadable.
- sails01 1y agoCode is not read like a book, so not clear how relevant is that argument. In my case being able to read more significant lines in one go, clearly helps me navigate and understand code better. And I let my IDE (Jetbrains) to the wrapping based on the actual width of the editor windows at any time, it works really well.
- compressedgas 1y agoThe entire point of a character line length limit is so that a diff doesn't have wrapping lines on a terminal. And so that most changes become line insertions or deletions rather than modifications of lines.