[drcharris]

The 80 char limit was, IIRC, based around the capabilities of fixed-width terminals and dot-matrix printers. It's not magical.

I have the luxury of writing code only for myself, so I can maximise devotion to my 'personal style' and not worry about other people's opinions.

I'm all about information density, and since on 99.9% of monitors the vertical axis is the short one, and the horizontal axis is the long one, I want to save as much vertical space as possible. This is also why I can't stand horizontal tabs (thank you, Tree Style Tab).

On a 27" 4K monitor I get two side-by-side files open in my IDE, with a 10-point font, at 160 char wrap, with vertical tabs. This fits my style because I favour inline comments which maximises my use of the vertical space by not needing another line.

Luckily my eyes are still good enough to read this!