Personally, I treat setup of the workstation as one-off things, I don't archive configurations for stuff other than vim and an additional script for bashrc. I

Personally, I treat setup of the workstation as one-off things, I don't archive configurations for stuff other than vim and an additional script for bashrc. I prefer to have the build and runtime environments be independent of the host machine to some degree, so there are docker images available for executing the build, these contain stuff like compilers and libraries and even npm cache for nodejs stuff