Considering how easily I lose track of my position when reading long lines and how easy it is to read vertically when lines each have a single word on them, I seriously question the method by which most developers determine that they prefer >80 character line length limits.
How descriptive are your variable names and how how many of them are you passing around? Comparing x to y in a few different ways will easily fit into 80 columns, but you can only put something like machinePoolControllerGroup or webhookControllerRuntime a couple of times before hitting 80 chars with indentation.
I use descriptive variable names and I do sometimes run into issues around that. Sometimes that means putting the variable which is on the right of the comparison on a separate line, indented, but I’ll admit that carries its own ugliness. It’s not perfect but I do have difficulty reading those really long variable names on one line so I’m not shy about splitting things on multiple lines. I assume others don’t lose their place as easily but I doubt I’m alone in that at the same time.
