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Traditionally, I'd think of setting up my developer machine as spending a day or so to install all the programs I need to work on whatever projects. Services l
by rgoulter 4y ago
Traditionally, I'd think of setting up my developer machine as spending a day or so to install all the programs I need to work on whatever projects.
Services like GitPod are about serving a development environment remotely.
The blogposts discusses dotfiles as a social thing. e.g. you should be able to fork someone's dotfiles repository as a good starting point for your dotfiles.
The idea in the blogpost is a suggestion which combines this idea of sharing dotfiles, with the idea of being able to quickly spin up a developer environment.
- capableweb 4y agoBypassing the whole set of issues that "having a development environment remotely" introduced (isn't that just "testing" environment at that point by the way?), dotfiles are inherently personal configuration files, otherwise it's just application configuration, so not dotfiles anymore. Nothing wrong with sharing dotfiles, I do that plenty myself, both sharing and using parts from others, but it's on my own accord and system-wide, not project specific. Project-specific configuration is just that, project-specific configuration, and you would not call it dotfiles anymore.