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Style guide #36

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jhtu opened this issue Apr 21, 2020 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #44
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Style guide #36

jhtu opened this issue Apr 21, 2020 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #44

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jhtu commented Apr 21, 2020

Make a style guide for future developers.

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jhtu commented Apr 21, 2020

Moved from old todo.txt.

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jhtu commented Apr 21, 2020

Fair to question whether or not an 80-character limit is outdated. More generally, is it useful to have any fixed page width? This perhaps suggests that it could be:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/222998

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jhtu commented Apr 21, 2020

Here are some discussions from the web-design world, which is nice because it is separate from the history of coding/punchcards, and focuses on readability instead:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/09/balancing-line-length-font-size-responsive-web-design/

https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability

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