I can 3-ways diff merge with three windows, side-by-side, each 120 characters wide. That is fine with me. When I write my own code I try to not get after the

I can 3-ways diff merge with three windows, side-by-side, each 120 characters wide. That is fine with me. When I write my own code I try to not get after the 100th column on the line though (and that is never 100 characters per line with all the indentation going on). But in case I stumble on code with long lines, I'm still fine. One should also not forget that some language some of use are forced to work with are incredibly verbose (a combination of culture, lack of type inference, the existence of every and any modifier under the sun, etc.). ECPrivateKeyParameters privKey = new ECPrivateKeyParameters(privateKey, Sign.CURVE); That's 84 character for you (not even counting leading indent characters) from BouncyCastle, the Java crypto library. Maybe you'll even want so slap a "private" modifier in front of that line. And that's not an hardcore example: this is relatively soft. Now thankfully, like Linus, I don't think 80 characters-wide code makes any sense at all whatsoever in 2021 (not that I especially like verbose language btw).