I realized I always make a source folder under home and then subfolders named after programming languages to organize projects but then I realized I somehow had my own convention for how to store my source code and I have no idea where I got it from
Then I thought. what about other Linux users ?
What sorts of conventions do you have that pertains to folder structure in Linux ?
Multiple people in this topic say they organise in directories for different programming languages, something I have never considered and I find it to be an odd way of organising for some reason I can’t explain.
Where do you put a project with a Javascript frontend and a Python backend?
In a folder called javpy, of course!
Since projects of the same language often use the same tooling this makes it easier to clean up the whole directory by running something like this:
for d in ./*/ ; do (cd "$d" && somecommand); donesomecommandcould becargo cleanif you’re in the Rust directory for example.for me I consider that a web project so it goes into the typescript folder, if it’s backend only then python
Why group it into language instead of say a ‘web’ directory or ‘android’/‘mobile’?
I’m just curious, I am more of a ‘throw everything in one directory and home I remember what I’m looking for’ sort of organiser.
Honestly it’s a pretty good way of compartmentalizing projects in your mind.
You usually remember pretty well what language your wrote a project in.
And if you want to find a project again you just have to look in that language’s directory.
Second advantage is that if there’s a language you only fucked around a little for fun, it doesn’t clutter the directories of your most used languages.
Yeah that’s a pretty good argument for it.
for me the project exists because I thought “id like to play with <language> today” but not necessarily “I want to make a <platform> project”
I agree, just have it by project. Otherwise I might have to look in different folders to find something. And what does it add, that something is grouped by language?