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The Best Line Length
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
The implication here is that the width of 80-character terminals is an antiquated relic, based entirely around the hardware limitations of a bygone era, and modern displays can put tons of stuff on one line, so why not use that capability? Big screens are super useful as they allow us to leverage our spatial memories to keep more relevant code around and simply glance around as we think, rather than navigate interactively. So, by the time you’re done wasting all that horizontal space, a max line length of 90 actually looks more like a maximum of 78... right about that sweet spot from the US-Letter page in the typewriter that we started with.
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