Ask HN: Where do save your source code on desk?

I have directories by language in ~/home/. At the scale of code I write, if there's code in another language, then I just put alongside the other code...just like I would with HTML and CSS and YML within the ~/home/javascript/ tree.

The advantage is that when I want to find a piece of code I know what language I need the code for. So I know where to start looking without first having to figure out "What did I call it?" and the list of candidates is narrow.

it doesn't matter as long as its backed by a version control system. most of the time i just use /opt/source as a checkout location and symlink to whereever i need it.

Why?

I had a conversation about this with a colleague, he uses /source since he said long time ago some virus scanners would skip this directory by default, not sure how accurate that is now, I became curious after that conversation to find where other people would store theirs.