> And are still BS with today's monitors (including laptop monitors).
My 15" laptop monitor can only (readably to me) fit two 100-wide buffers in a visually barebone editor (emacs), move to an editor or IDE where the UI takes more horizontal space because of sidebars (Atom, IntelliJ) and the buffers are close to 80-wide, so 80-wide is a perfectly fine limit as far as I'm concerned.
Until I have to perform a 3-way merge, then 80-wide doesn't fit anymore.
And age will eventually catch up to me and make things worse.
Missing the point that you don't have to have ALL your lines > 80. Just the few that need to be so.
And for those, you can always either wrap or scroll a little to see them in a 3 way merge, it's not a big deal.
Heck, in the eighties that you champion and that they got that rule, they worked with a single 80-wide terminal view, not 2 100-wide side by side and no 3 way merges.
My 15" laptop monitor can only (readably to me) fit two 100-wide buffers in a visually barebone editor (emacs), move to an editor or IDE where the UI takes more horizontal space because of sidebars (Atom, IntelliJ) and the buffers are close to 80-wide, so 80-wide is a perfectly fine limit as far as I'm concerned.
Until I have to perform a 3-way merge, then 80-wide doesn't fit anymore.
And age will eventually catch up to me and make things worse.