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"For those who object that dot files serve a purpose, I don't dispute that but counter that it's the files that serve the purpose, not the convention for their

• vanderZwan 10y ago
  That comparison makes little sense, given that these are the actual arguments he has against dot-files: > First, a bad precedent was set. A lot of other lazy programmers introduced bugs by making the same simplification. Actual files beginning with periods are often skipped when they should be counted. > Second, and much worse, the idea of a "hidden" or "dot" file was created. As a consequence, more lazy programmers started dropping files into everyone's home directory. > I don't have all that much stuff installed on the machine I'm using to type this, but my home directory has about a hundred dot files and I don't even know what most of them are or whether they're still needed. Every file name evaluation that goes through my home directory is slowed down by this accumulated sludge. At least, I can't think of any similar problems that semantically significant casing in Go creates.