Programming Setup

System

My computer is a MacBook Air (M1, 2020) with 8 GB of memory.

Although my machine is a couple years old, it works well and runs quite fast.

Terminal

iTerm2 is my daily driver.

Based on my experience, it is by far the best terminal for macOS, offering many configuration options.

I typically work with 2 vertically split panes. My font is Fira Mono from Nerd Fonts. My terminal color palette is a slightly modified version of Atom One Dark.

I use zsh as my shell, and Starship as my shell prompt.

iTerm2 window

Some other terminal emulators you may want to look into are Alacritty, kitty, and Hyper.

Packages

Homebrew is my package manager.

Homebrew works well for me as I am the only user on my computer.

Editor

Neovim is my editor.

To manage plugins, I use vim-plug.

The plugins I use are:

• lualine.nvim as my statusline
• nvim-lspconfig for language server configuration
• nvim-treesitter for Tree-sitter integration
• onedarkpro.nvim as my editor theme
• telescope.nvim for searching
• telescope-file-browser.nvim for file browsing

The language servers I use are:

• clangd (C++)
• jdtls (Java)
• lua-language-server (Lua)
• pyright (Python)
• solargraph (Ruby)
• tinymist (Typst)
• typescript-language-server (JavaScript / TypeScript)

Neovim editor

Utilities

A couple utilities I use are:

• bat instead of cat
• delta instead of diff
• eza instead of ls
• fd instead of find
• ripgrep instead of grep

Terminal utilities

For competitive programming, I also have a local tool hp, which can download problems, run tests, and more. For stress testing, I use qstress.

Competitive programming setup