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Maybe it's also time to loosen the 80char limit a little bit, screen resolutions have advanced dramatically and large screens are commonplace.

I'm not a fan of sacrificing readability for some arbitrary screen-width limitation.

Going up to 100 or 120 is already sufficient

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Contrariwise, I try to keep my code under 72 columns wide, and impose a hard limit at 80. Long lines are hard to read, no matter what screen they're on.

You'd need to make a case of which value, and why, and why it is better, so that the terminals can standardize on it.

I actually like the limitation, because it makes me use more enters, so that the information ends up not within one line but in multiple. Which mans more lines (and LOC) but better readability.

I guess a good comparison is Twitter's limitation on the characters. It has its pros and cons.

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