Ask HN: How long does it take to setup your dev environment?

Re:Ask HN: How long does it take to setup your dev environment? by stephenr on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:35AM (#16628381)

About a day or so from a fresh install of macOS.

The vast majority of projects (both internal and for clients) that I work on use a vagrant dev environment.

Besides that it’s mostly just local tools. I try to use Mac App Store versions of apps where possible because it makes that scenario simpler (open purchases tab, click a bunch of “install” buttons)

For other stuff like hg, git, vagrant, etc which are .pkg based I’m still looking for a good automation solution.

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Re:Ask HN: How long does it take to setup your dev environment? by jrowley on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:30PM (#16630076)

You should check out brew and brew cask if you're on a mac.

You can install Chrome/Firefox from the command line, atom, etc. Very simple and convenient.

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Re:Ask HN: How long does it take to setup your dev environment? by stephenr on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:42PM (#16630202)

I know about Brew.

Brew's philosophy is "I know you have a powerful multi-user UNIX workstation, with literally decades of best practices about user permissions, installing software etc, but just for lulz we're going to install everything as user-owned, so you dont have to type your password.

Fuck. That.

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