Is phobos too fluffy?

[Daniel N]

On Saturday, 19 September 2020 at 16:32:13 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
>
> Yes indeed! I do mention that in a couple of talks. Their 
> indent size is 8, too. You can't do a lot of shenanigans with 
> indent size 8 and max columns 80.
>
> Many animals are beautiful because they live hard lives.

They recently switched to 100:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038

I fully agree with your statement of complexity based on nesting, 
however I totally disagree with the solution.

Modern "linters" are sufficiently capable to issue an error on 3 
levels of _nesting_ instead of an arbitrarily chosen max column.

Just consider some features, such as named-parameters, if 
anything they are more likely to reduce complexity than to 
increase it, however it will result in very long lines, even if 
the line is a single statement without nesting, being forced to 
break such lines will reduce readability.