> Linus is making the typical bad faith argument that people use 80 char limit because of hardware limitations. Disagreement does not mean "bad faith". The ch

> Linus is making the typical bad faith argument that people use 80 char limit because of hardware limitations. Disagreement does not mean "bad faith". The character limit is 80 because of hardware. The argument for using 80 characters is not "use short lines because it's easier to read". It's not "use 85 characters if it increases readability and understanding". It's "80 characters is a hard limit and if you go over we're gonna wrap or truncate" Yes. It is 80 and not another number only because of hardware and history. It has never been about readability.