Comment by jamesbelchamber
1 year ago
I am going through a phase of working with younger engineers who have many dotfiles, and I just think "Oh, yeh, I remember having lots of dotfiles. What a hassle that was."
Nowadays I just try to be quite selective with my tooling and learn to change with it - "like water", so to speak.
(I say this with no shade to those who like maintaining their dotfiles - it takes all sorts :))
I've been programming 30 years and I really don't find it a hassle:
- if you commit them to git, they last your entire career
- improving your setup is basically compound interest
- with a new laptop, my setup script might cause me 15 minutes of fixing a few things
- the more you do it, the less any individual hassle becomes, and the easier it looks to make changes – no more "i don't have time" mindset