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I agree with the author. It's subtle but it's about signal to noise. A screen full of whitespace has no signal and it's an artificial impediment to the knowledge transfer from screen to brain.

Unfortunately auto-formatting is a better for other reasons so we don't have much wiggle room here but left alone I adopt the authors style

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> It's subtle but it's about signal to noise. A screen full of whitespace has no signal and it's an artificial impediment to the knowledge transfer from screen to brain.

Not always.

I'm a developer that likes a lot of whitespace. My style is exactly the one the author hates.

I struggle with full walls of text. As in, my brain just simply cannot handle whitespace-free, or nearly whitespace-free, code.

Whitespace makes it easier for me to read, exactly the opposite of the author.

And that's okay. But it's certainly not an impediment of knowledge transfer to my brain.

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