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by cjfd 18 days ago
How about not? If an LLM is needed to get set up either the language or the documentation is garbage. Probably both.
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If you get deeply excited about config files, sure, go right ahead and set up the dev env without help.
pacman -S git vim gcc make gtest

That is about it. No stinkin' config files needed. Initial Makefile is about 15 lines long, I can type it myself or copy something from another project.

Ah you should have just said you use arch.

But it's a very weak programmer that needs a test suite. Real ones prove the consistency of their programs with goose feather and vellum.

I am not sure about the goose feather and the vellum but you do have a point about proving consistency. Fortunately, I also have a coq/rocq project for that kind of stuff so maybe one day I can be a not-so-very-weak programmer.