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   • Cybarbie

   @bagder @nf3xn I agree in principle but 100 chars is the One True Line Length

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     @nf3xn there are plenty of research on the topic actually, when it comes to readability in general and wide lines, independent of source code, just plain text

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     • daniel:// stenberg://

     In which @bagder is wrong about something, maybe.

     "Wider code is harder to read."

     Seems obvious it is highly subjective. Period.

     I personally find excessive line breaking very difficult to read.

     Being a DEC bunny I grew up on 80 chars. I always preferred my VT100 on 132w.

     I found reading the blog post hard.

     Breaking words is probably even worse (inset) 😂

     I guess you can get used to anything.

     But is there any evidence to support this dogma?

     tldr; No. /1

     https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/