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    Please use .config ๐Ÿ˜ญ (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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    [โ€“] [email protected] 123 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    but please don't hard-code ~/.config or $HOME/.config. Use the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable, with $HOME/.config as a fallback if it's not set.

    Many programming languages have a cross-platform implementation of this built in to their standard library. C# has Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData) which uses XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux, local AppData on Windows, and whatever is the correct thing on MacOS (not very familiar with how things work on MacOS)

    [โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

    Never new about this! That's very handy

    [โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    On macOS, the correct thing to use is usually NSUserDefaults API, or - [NSFileManager URLsForDirectory:inDomains:] with NSApplicationSupportDirectory (gives a list of paths to find your config file in, like XDG_CONFIG_DIRS)