I realized I always make a source folder under home and then subfolders named after programming languages to organize projects but then I realized I somehow had my own convention for how to store my source code and I have no idea where I got it from
Then I thought. what about other Linux users ?
What sorts of conventions do you have that pertains to folder structure in Linux ?
Why group it into language instead of say a ‘web’ directory or ‘android’/‘mobile’?
I’m just curious, I am more of a ‘throw everything in one directory and home I remember what I’m looking for’ sort of organiser.
Honestly it’s a pretty good way of compartmentalizing projects in your mind.
You usually remember pretty well what language your wrote a project in.
And if you want to find a project again you just have to look in that language’s directory.
Second advantage is that if there’s a language you only fucked around a little for fun, it doesn’t clutter the directories of your most used languages.
Yeah that’s a pretty good argument for it.
for me the project exists because I thought “id like to play with <language> today” but not necessarily “I want to make a <platform> project”
I agree, just have it by project. Otherwise I might have to look in different folders to find something. And what does it add, that something is grouped by language?