Development Environment Setup

Recipe for setting up a productive dev environment.

Ingredients

A Unix-like system (@linux or macOS)
Terminal emulator
Package manager

Steps

1. Install Homebrew (macOS) or your distro's package manager

# macOS
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

# Arch Linux - pacman is built-in
# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

2. Install Essential Tools

# Shell
brew install zsh starship

# Development
brew install git neovim tmux ripgrep fd fzf

# Languages
brew install rust go python node

3. Configure Zsh

# Install oh-my-zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

# Add to .zshrc
eval "$(starship init zsh)"

4. Setup Git

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global init.defaultBranch main
git config --global pull.rebase true

5. Configure Neovim

Start with a preconfigured setup like LazyVim or build your own.

Verification

# Check installations
which zsh git nvim tmux
rustc --version
go version
python3 --version
node --version