But seriously I think it varies by use case. “Tight” languages like golang, python, ruby, or most backends (other than Java)? Going over 80 is a bit of a smell. But if we’re talking about a React frontend? Then yeah, an 80 character limit is obnoxious.
It really depends on the use case. Scripting? 80 should suffice. Writing a complete program with classes, methods in classes, calling methods of variables, chaining method calls… 80 is very punishing. Even 130 is punishing for some pyspark methods. To apply line limits , you end up dividing calls in separate lines, which in turn makes the whole file much, much larger. Doing to it for the times it happens in 130 lines is completely fine, but with 80 a 800 lines file would be converted to 2000 at minimum. That’s not good.
I think it’s just because they’re old. I’ve got told “ok boomer” for complaining about lines of source code longer than 80 characters.
I mean, that’s the exact response it deserves.
Haha yeah I’ve seen the error of my ways.
But seriously I think it varies by use case. “Tight” languages like golang, python, ruby, or most backends (other than Java)? Going over 80 is a bit of a smell. But if we’re talking about a React frontend? Then yeah, an 80 character limit is obnoxious.
It really depends on the use case. Scripting? 80 should suffice. Writing a complete program with classes, methods in classes, calling methods of variables, chaining method calls… 80 is very punishing. Even 130 is punishing for some pyspark methods. To apply line limits , you end up dividing calls in separate lines, which in turn makes the whole file much, much larger. Doing to it for the times it happens in 130 lines is completely fine, but with 80 a 800 lines file would be converted to 2000 at minimum. That’s not good.
120 is the limit for me. Anything longer is crazy pills.
Yeah if I have to turn on text wrapping to read the code, then something is seriously wrong.
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