[afarrell]

> These all take an hour max each day.

um, what? If this is based on personal experience I would love to understand how.

In my experience, Setting up a totally new development environment in an unfamiliar toolset generally takes waaaay more than an hour.

[nurettin]

There is usually a gotcha when setting up a new environment. IMO it works frictionless when you are on linux. Android studio installs sdk and ndk so it's like cheating. Linux provides everything to write some c++. Pyenv can easily install whichever python environment you want. Then you can use venv/poetry/pipenv. Snaps can help set up java and kotlin instantly. Spring boot has a website to download a starting template. rvm for ruby, just setting up some environment variables is enough for go, rustup and cargo for rust, etc. Elixir just works out of the box. I don't know how hard the next thing will be.

Do you have an example of a setup you got stuck on for hours?