I just got a new computer (Mac, if relevant) and I'm in the process of downloading IDEs and other stuff intended for development. Is there a recommended pattern for setting up the file system for development?
On a different computer in the past, I just created a folder titled Development in the home directory and then all workspaces were dumped in there. There is a workspace folder for Eclipse projects and then some other folders for Xcode projects.
I searched and read this blog post that recommends the conventions for Go. Any other recommended setups?
I plan to contribute to open source projects and to have some Xcode and Java projects of my own, if any of that's relevant.
This might be primarily opinion based, but the folder structure I've settled on is based on my use cases. I generally have two ways I use code: experimenting with a language, and working on a project (and that project sometimes has multiple languages). Accordingly, I create two folder heirarchies: ~/Code/<language>/ for experimenting with a language, and ~/Git/<projectname>/ for projects.
The Code might look something like this:
Code/
├── Bash
│ └── tmp.sh
├── C
│ └── tmp.c
├── CPP
│ └── tmp.cpp
└── Python
├── multifile
│ ├── first.py
│ └── second.py
└── tmp.py
And the Git folder would look something like this:
Git/
├── CoolProject
└── Project1
├── README.md
├── doc
└── src
In the Code directory, I worry much less about structure or documentation. Once/If a project grows big or important enough to version control I place it in the Git directory where I try to follow the conventional folder hierarchy for the language, like your Go link, or this Python guide or whatever Eclipse would make for Java. I do try to have a README.md at the root level of each project so I'll know what it does and I can put it on GitHub easily.