Does check style 80 character rule still making sense today? <p>I have recently started doing some Java and one of the Maven checkstyle plugin is pissing me off, specially the 80 chars per line rule ! </p> <pre><code>"Line is longer than 80 characters!" </code></pre> <p>I have managed to fix most of the checkstyle "compile error" generated by the Maven plugin automatically via a Eclipse checkstyle plugin but many of the the 80 chars error still needs manual fix despite I have fiddled with the formatter for quite a while....</p> <p>What makes it worse is it makes the code looks ugly, breaking function deceleration,class deceleration, assignment into 2/3 line, </p> <p>Some of the checkstyle is good which helps us get the code clean but some rules just looks stupid and total waste of time !</p> <p>This makes me wondering does the 80 chars checkstyle still making any sense in the modern computer age ? I just failed to understand why java team still use it, it has been causing more trouble than helping us get the code clean &amp; in a good style...</p>