What do you call your folder where you keep your code?

On each new PC I make a folder named after some version of the afterlife: 'xibalba,' 'elysium,' 'outerdark.' And that's where I keep all my code. I assume everyone does this? And I'm curious where you keep your code on your own PC.

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[Eka]

I'm a bit obsessive-compulsive when it comes to organizing my files (either it has be consistent OR I'd leave it completely messy). After trying complex structures, now under the default Mac OS Documents, I just have:

• _Work --> has subdirectories for Day Job and each paid side project
• Foo --> all non-paid/personal coding projects go here
• Bar
• Baz

Last two directories will be for non-code personal projects but currently they are empty. I recently changed laptop (~3 months ago); my old projects are in my external HDD.

[Niko Heikkilä]

Mine follows this pattern:

~/src/<gitserver>/<owner>/<repository>

Example:

~/src/github.com/nikoheikkila/cv

Mostly I use z to jump to correct directory by repo name which is neatly supported by this.

[Emmy | Pixi]

I'm boring/lazy. Mines literally just "Code" and it's a top level directory so I can just cd code and find what I need haha

[Subramanya Chakravarthy]

Me too

[dinos]

Same here!

[Nočnica Mellifera Heroku]

This makes more sense than the people calling it “github”

[Emmy | Pixi]

Is that a thing people do!?

[Nočnica Mellifera Heroku]

on here and on Twitter it is, I think, the most common answer

[PremJeet]

Git_repo and then obviously there are sub directories d3,p5 etc 👨‍💻

[Kyle Boe]

I use this pattern:

~/<version control host>/<repo name>

This looks like:

~/github/railsdock

[Peyton McGinnis]

~/dev/<language>/<project> for local projects,

~/dev/git/<project> for projects on GitHub

[Nenba Jonathan]

i use this pattern
~/workspace/<project>/src

[Constantine]

That's interesting 😄

Mine is simple ~/projects for all my.. well, projects. And inside are dirs by technology for personal stuff, e.g. python/, react/, etc. And %company_name%/ for full-time job projects.

[Carlos Manique Silva]

I use variants of ~/_git/repo_domain/repo_group/repo_name depending on the hosting.
Allows me to quickly browse stuff that is either local, github, gitlab, etc...

Anything related to software tools I keep in ~/work/tools, organised in concept, vendor, tool, version (ie: ide/jetbrains/intellij/20201).

Project related stuff like documents, assets I keep in variants of ~/work/projects/customer_name/initiative/project

Many people place code together with projects, but having separate folders is useful to avoid long paths, and I get a clear ideia of what's transient and versioned or not.

[Amohammadi2]

Nice 👍

[Leon Lafayette]

Be prepared to be underwhelmed.

I name my folder... dev/ 😀