Given that we live on a timeline it is useful for sure. Having a dotfile automatically marked as hidden for example is a useful combination that keeps learned t

Given that we live on a timeline it is useful for sure. Having a dotfile automatically marked as hidden for example is a useful combination that keeps learned traditions when preferred. > that's unnecessarily surprising. I found it unnecessarily surprising that dotfiles werent shown when I got started with unix-like systems. I consider "surprise" to be a weak argument in this case, especially since we do have things that refer to a file that both the file browser and ls do not show (but which are still loaded since opendir and readdir do not care about the dot). Whether or not a file with a dot at the beginning is shown or not is nothing but arbitrary convention. I'd like my convention to not care about the file path to decide "does ls or the file browser show it", as that is how I prefer different concepts in general: decoupled. However, I do accept surprise as an argument against hidden files at all (including dotfiles).