I know there choice of distro is really meaningless as you can install almost any program on almost any distro. But I have been playing with kali which is for security people and pen testers. Is there a similar distro for programmers? Like a few ides installed some profiling tools some virtual environment tools etc?

  • matcha_addictEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What does a programmer need?

    • a text editor or IDE
    • language specific tool chains for building, running and testing your code

    This doesn’t seem to be something a distro can solve beyond making it possible to install this stuff.

    Maybe the closest is nixos, because it allows a lot of flexibility in setting up different development environments that are fully reproducible. Gentoo is also close, as it allows the same but in a different way (without the extent of reproducible guarantees).