The fact is that the limit of 80 characters length is arbitrary. No evidence that code of 80 characters length is more readable than code of 83 characters lengt

The fact is that the limit of 80 characters length is arbitrary. No evidence that code of 80 characters length is more readable than code of 83 characters length. The other fact is that few devs craft their code to fit 80 characters. Instead they write code and let formatters do their thing. But automated formaters are doing a horrible job, aka if I write a line that is 81 characters long, they will massacre it to a set of unreadable lines with no proper aligning. So now we are at the mercy of automated formatters that try to enforce an arbitrary constraint that is irrelevant with today's code editing/reviewing technologies.