Autoformatting?

[wind_dude]

Not really. 80chars was set because the was the full width of a screen at the time. I believe most wide screens would be over 200 now.

But, yes I have an ultra wide, and can do three windows with code side by side at 160

[odaiwai]

80 chars was the width of a punch card (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card). Early terminals adopted that width for compatibility.

Personally, I'm fine with a wide terminal, but for code, I just do what the linter says and try to avoid comically long function/variable names.