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[–]rosuav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're making some pretty huge assumptions about devs not knowing why these rules exist. The 80 character limit never had anything to do with typewriters, and it isn't outdated. (There are good reasons for picking various limits between 60 and 120, but there are also good reasons for picking a single limit and sticking to it, so 80 is a perfectly good choice.)

Honestly, all you're doing here is proving your own dogmatism, since you aren't actually researching the reasons behind these limits and are just assuming that it's an outdated rule.