> 80-characters-per-line is a de-facto standard for viewing code. Readers of your code who rely on that standard, and have their terminal or editor sized to 80 characters wide, can fit more on the screen by placing windows side-by-side.
This is one of the silliest practices to still be enforced or even considered in 2024. “Readers” should get a modern IDE/text editor and/or modern hardware.
This is one of the silliest practices to still be enforced or even considered in 2024. “Readers” should get a modern IDE/text editor and/or modern hardware.