Warning, I’m about to get on my mild OCD soapbox again. Too many development tools expect to get the privilege of a config file in the root directory of my projects. Many of them don’t even allow it to be a hidden file—they just require a fully unhidden “tool.yml” file sitting right there in the root of your project. Stop it. Please. Linux HOME Directory Link to heading Once upon a time this was a serious problem for organizing files in the Linux HOME directory too. Tools thought way too much of themselves and added files, directories, etc. to your HOME folder. A lot of them still do!
  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    yeah, I’ve also been noticing this in the past months. The number of dotfiles in project roots is an ever growing number, to the point where we have literally dozens of files and directories and only a handful that actually mean anything to the project. It’s pure clutter.