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jarofgreentoday at 6:14 AM3 repliesview on HN

> Typically keep comments on a single line without line breaks — if a comment is useful, developers will scroll to read them, if it’s not they can easily scroll past it.

Disagree. Personally that sounds like a massive barrier to reading the comment to me. Limited width column text is generally regarded as easier to read, make your comments easier to read. Especially as I probably have the code open in a limited width window, as that's what I expect from code.


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medwards666today at 8:52 AM

Yeah, this particular bullet point almost made me stop reading the rest of the article thinking that the author has zero idea what the hell they're on about...

someothherguyytoday at 6:27 AM

What? You don't like horizontally scrolling 6000 columns to read something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_folding

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dozerlytoday at 6:18 AM

Who doesn’t have soft wrapping enabled in 2026? Line breaks are irrelevant

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