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(How) do you automate setting up your local development environment? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In a lot of projects, this is usually done via README. It tells you what running dependencies to install and how to run certain commands.

This can get harder to maintain as things change, the project grows, and complexity increases.

I see two parts to automate here: actually setting up the environment, and running the application or orchestrating multiple apps.

How do you address this?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Containerization is only heavy outside of Linux, and orchestration only makes sense when manual orchestration becomes too tedious (it's easy to orchestrate a single app).

Keeping docs for those things is very troublesome imo. You can't feasibly consider everyone's different environment, C library used, their system's package manager and how it may package software differently than yours, and the endless array of things they may have already installed that may effect your app in some way. Sure, it's not super common, but it's hell when it does.

But I suppose if your use case is very simple, like "just have nodejs installed and run npm start" then sure. But things can get ugly very easily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For toolchains like rust, go, c#, typescript/nodejs how would "things get ugly very fast" when making the toolchain an env dependency?