Linus on Line Breaks (2020)
Shorter lines are easier for the eye to visually scan without accidentally skipping up or down during the leftward return saccade.[1]80 characters happens to be just a little longer than the supposedly ideal measure for continuous text promulgated by Robert Bringhurst.[2]I take the even more draconian approach of wrapping to 72 columns when writing comments, after the fashion of PEP 8.[3]Of course, Linus will dictate the style of his projects' codebases as he deems fit.[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade[2]http://webtypography.net/2.1.2[3]https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-lengt...