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Discussion on: I hate setting up my dev environment.

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Vincent Dedo

I find it's a problem because it's done so infrequently that it feels like you're doing it for the first time each time. I've taken notes for my latest dev setup but I expect things will have changed the next time I have to do it and my notes will be worthless.

I tend to go for a minimalist setup for avoid issues. I've seen other developers describe their setup and I can't help but think "do you really need all this stuff?". I set up pycharm, virtual envs, homebrew and am building up a .bash_profile with what i want in it, that's all. A fair chunk of it is automated and kept as a script in a private repo of mine and hopefully it's a single command to set up most of it.