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Discussion on: Does Coding with a Column Width of 80 Make Sense in 2024?

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Having two code windows side by side is awesome. Same thing goes for editor + browser, whether it's documentation or our js application we are working on.

Above that, IDE can be opened on a display with pivot set for portrait mode. Longer lines won't fit :)

There is one more reason for enforcement of colum width. It's to reduce the nesting levels. HTML with twelve or more nesting levels is well known to all those people who use html4 with tables. It's just difficult to find yourself in it, and yet I still see people doing 3 or 4 levels of nested loops, even more of nested anonymous functions.