If its gnu software it probably has integration with emacs

Tbh theres probably not going to be water in utah by the time the data center finishes construction. And utah will likely be uninhabitable.

Use a home dir on a separate partition and use nix or flatpak or some other distro agnostic package manager

I agree. Something about llms where they use strange wording like the last sentence or “its not just x its y” type phrases

I program on pc. Programming on phone is pretty terrible, I have spent a decent amount of time doing this and you kinda need to accept that a lot of regular dev programs on termux don’t work. And you also have to accept using the terminal for everything

Being able to program with a mouse is pretty convinient for things like debugging

Have you seen debugging in an ide, they usually just run gdb / lldb commands

In my experience, doing small changes to your nix config when using nix flakes seems to be faster. For me it only rebuilds everything when I run nix flake update before running sudo nixos-rebuild switch so it seems faster because it only does the thing that I changed instead of updating everything.