80 character limit? Are we trying to relive the late 80s. Soon we'll move back to 40 characters. Screens can support higher resolutions now limiting lines to 80 so developers can turn their brains off seems silly. Turn your brain on and learn to filter the noise of 100 characters.
People use ultrawide screen, with half screen dedicated to browser, half screen for code editor, and two columns open in editor. This is very modern setup, and 80 is perfect for it. Don't limit your thinking to your own setup.
I think discussion on the perfect limit on public forum is non-sense. It might be slightly less non-sense to discuss it with your team, but even that I think it is bike-shredding most of the time, unless the entire team for some reason (like they share the same equipment setup and happen to have same preference) overwhelmingly share the sentiment.
> People use ultrawide screen, with half screen dedicated to browser, half screen for code editor, and two columns open in editor. This is very modern setup, and 80 is perfect for it. Don't limit your thinking to your own setup.
It kind of sounds like you're promoting your own setup.
The funny thing I see the most is that people with these crazy widescreen monitors still maximize just one window, with just one file open. Not sure why, maybe for focus?
100 is OK. But better to wager for 80, so people complain about their preferred 120+, and ending up with an acceptable 100 as a middle ground.
On my screen with 1920x1080, 2 side-by-side panels can fit 100 chars, but only if the sidebar is hidden (project layout, list of open files, that kind of stuff).
On my laptop, 2 side-by-side files won't fit if they exceed 90 chars.
I just don't want to concede to those devs who use a single editor pane with an ultrawide monitor, and believe that everybody must work like they do.
These are web developers. Of course they're going to try to force content into a narrow width view and not let you choose to have a wider view even if it makes perfectly valid sense for the given content. These are usability problems that people aren't allowed to make their own decisions about because the UI designer knows the only right answer. "It makes the content more readable" and all that. /s
