fyi the only valid line length limit is 80 characters, and you might use it because you're concerned for visual-impairment accessibility because Braille displays wider than that apparently don't exist anything else, widen your goddamn window buddyhttps://twitter.com/changelog/status/999652792707858433 …
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Replying to @chaosprime
thought it was line a bit of techno-evolutionary cruft leftover from the linefeed limit of a pdp-11 terminal?
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Replying to @danlistensto
that sounds right, just saying there's one valid reason left to cling to it
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto
code readability suffers when you’ve got 32 levels of indent and 500 characters on a line. (Yes, I have worked with code like this). While 80 is a bit antiquated thesedays, going beyond 120 or so is generally a bad idea imo.
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Replying to @MeFromBefore @danlistensto
proliferating indent levels are extremely bad, i don't think line limits are the way to make people stop doing them is all, mostly because it doesn't work, they'll just write their code in a 5 character wide column you're not super wrong, i just like to advocate extremism
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto
I don’t advocate a hard limit, but I do advocate people putting effort into making their code readable on an average display with an average font. I dislike the connotations of the word “code” — you shouldn’t need to “decode” it to read it.
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also OT but this is the audience for ithttps://twitter.com/systemergent/status/999511421380526080 …
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