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by smarkov 1252 days ago
You must be referring to the constrained width of the page, you can change that in the preferences if you really prefer having the text cover your whole screen.

There's a reason we have a character limit per line when writing code - it's much easier to read and understand short chunks of vertical text. Personally, I find it far more comfortable reading text which doesn't go above 600-900px in width and this has been a well known UX/UI guideline for the last 10 years. Having your eyes go from the far left to the far right of your screen is also very straining on any >21" screen.