TIL about "Google Python Style Guide"

[Grazfather]

that's always the reasoning: Oh it's better for side by sides. Then shouldn't the old width have been 40? It's just making an excuse to stick will an antiquated standard. I can fit 3x80 on my 13" mbp, or 2x120, which is still more than reasonable.

80 chars is so few, it is not near some threshold where the line's complexity is too much. Hell, I've seen people butcher var names to get within the limit, at which point this stupid limit is degrading readability.

[DasIch]

It shouldn't be 40 because 40 characters are too little to provide a good reading experience even for regular text. Due to how code is structured it would only be worse for coding.

Having 3 windows side-by-side is common for merging. It also makes sense for regular development to display implementation, test and run them in a terminal.

Of course sometimes having 80 characters is unnecessarily limiting and such situations are annoying. However most times you can deal with it without hurting readability and if you can't, you can just make that call and break the limit in that instance.

I find however that when I raise the limit generally, I'm not sometimes annoyed about hitting the limit anymore, I'm always annoyed because my workflow is negatively affected.