If line breaks really were irrelevant, the author wouldn't have felt the need to give a tip all around optimising line breaks.
replyPersonally, I would have hoped by 2026 we had better IDE's and tools for managing code in text files such that developers with different preferences for a number of characters in a column or things like how you display comments can be accommodated. Yet still teams end up arguing about what standard to use.
I, in fact, do not have wrapping enabled in my IDE....
replyYou never wrote Java I see
replyJava is why I don't have line wrapping enabled. It makes code unreadable when everything needs to be wrapped.
replySoft like breaks in a code editor? That's insane
replyAnd so the war began.
replyThis is a bit like vim vs Emacs - everyone should be able to use their favorite setup, and the formatting should not get in the way of the engineer's preferences.
Who makes assumptions about how others do things in 2026? Line breaks are apparently relevant, review agents complain about them, soft breaks are super annoying for vim motion users, opinions are still like ani
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