> 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.
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.