[dcow]

I don’t care how ultra your wide is, reading anything horizontally is painful and unwieldy. It’s biological, your eyes can’t track horizontally without row guidance, and even then it’s not hard to get lost.

I have one rule: code flows vertically. I like reading books. Code should read as easily as a book. I have found that if you constrain your code to being shaped like a book, almost everything else follows naturally.

You can’t be indented 7 levels into hell if your code has a reasonable line limit. You can’t jam arbitrary numbers of statements onto a single line. You have to decompose your control flow at reasonable function breaks. Lines are a better primitive for editing and debugging. Etc. etc. etc.