Use the latest Dev Tools on a Stable Debian Linux
I use Debian Linux as it provides a stable and low maintenance operating system, enabling me to focus on getting valuable tasks done. Package updates are well tested and the deb package management system avoid incompatible versions between dependent packages.
The small amount of maintenance is done via the Advance Packaging Tool (Apt), which has a very simple to understand command line, i.e. apt install, apt update, apt upgrade and apt purge.
The constraint of a stable operating system is that some of the latest versions of development tools and programming languages may not be available as part of the distributions package manager.
Simple bash scripts were created to install the latest development tools, made effectively one-liner's where the Download Release Artifacts (DRA) project could be used. The scripts were very simple even when falling back to curl with a few basic Linux commands.
Each shell script installs either an editor, programming language (e.g. Clojure, Rust, Node.js), Terminal UI (TUI) for development or system administration and for a few desktop apps.
debian-linux-post-instal.shupdates all the Debian packages, reading packages to add and remove from a plain text file.dev-tools-install.shcalls each script to install all the development tools, programming languages, TUI's and desktop app's.
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