[Keyframe]

au contraire! considering programming involves a lot of reading, it overlaps (or even comes from) with. best practices from ye olde tradition of typesetting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length#:~:text=Traditio.... Aside books and print magazines and newspapers, we still respect that on web sites when reading is involved, why should programming be exempt of ergonomy?

[wruza]

programming involves a lot of reading

Is that true for an average developer, really? Yes, we read lots of manuals, snippets, stackoverflows. But code? One does mostly write code.

And when we do read code, it may lack good naming, structure, comments, clarity, may be unnecessarily complex or hacky. Where does it wrap is the thing one would care about only in perfect code, if at all. Most editors can smart-wrap and clearly indicate it anyway.

[naasking]

> Is that true for an average developer, really? Yes, we read lots of manuals, snippets, stackoverflows. But code? One does mostly write code.

No, every developer almost certainly reads a lot more code than they write. You can't modify code to add a feature without reading and understanding the code first. The code you add is often very short compared to the code you need to read to understand what to modify.