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Re:CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft ... by leetcrew on Thursday February 07, 2019 @08:25AM (#19105030)
> this might be caused by the weird Google standard of 80 column limit for source code which I will just never understand in the 21st century where everyone has 24" and up full HD to 4k screens

even if you have a big screen, it's still useful to be able to fit two or three files side by side on a single screen. 80 chars might not make sense as a hard requirement for, eg, a c++ codebase, but it's still a worthy ideal to shoot for.

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Re:CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft ... by premun on Saturday February 09, 2019 @06:12PM (#19125309)
Yeah, I agree, but do 120, not hard 80 limit for every language. I remember C++ and JS code where you wouldn't fit even the for() definition in one line and that just becomes crazy
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