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by 1letterunixname 938 days ago
Line length with modern toolchains is too often stylistic bikeshedding with awkward limits stuck in 1975 cargo culted from the VT52. My external monitor can legibly display 637 x 81 while my laptop does 217 x 63. The largest barely legible terminals with tiny fonts are 3x the size.

Around 100 is a sane minimum while 160 is a sensible upper limit. There's no specific limit other than to prevent poor coding technique, illegible code, or inclusions of generated or minified atrocities.