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As the article states:

> The question could possibly be exactly where to draw the limit, and that’s a debate for every project to have.

It is subjective, and does not live in a vacuum because along with purely subjective preference regarding it on its own, it affects, and is affected by, other choices like naming and indentation conventions.

They like 80 in their project. Feel free to choose something else for your project.




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