Warning, I’m about to get on my mild OCD soapbox again. Too many development tools expect to get the privilege of a config file in the root directory of my projects. Many of them don’t even allow it to be a hidden file—they just require a fully unhidden “tool.yml” file sitting right there in the root of your project. Stop it. Please. Linux HOME Directory Link to heading Once upon a time this was a serious problem for organizing files in the Linux HOME directory too. Tools thought way too much of themselves and added files, directories, etc. to your HOME folder. A lot of them still do!
  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    move as much of the code structure to the top as possible

    I do the opposite and move all source code to a generic named src or similar, because the alternative creates even more clutter in the root dir IMO by mixing relevant and irrelevant files. And generic names like src, docs, and tests help keeping a similar structure for different repos.