> It's subtle but it's about signal to noise. A screen full of whitespace has no signal and it's an artificial impediment to the knowledge transfer from screen

> It's subtle but it's about signal to noise. A screen full of whitespace has no signal and it's an artificial impediment to the knowledge transfer from screen to brain. Not always. I'm a developer that likes a lot of whitespace. My style is exactly the one the author hates. I struggle with full walls of text. As in, my brain just simply cannot handle whitespace-free, or nearly whitespace-free, code. Whitespace makes it easier for me to read, exactly the opposite of the author. And that's okay. But it's certainly not an impediment of knowledge transfer to my brain.