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“Developer” wasn’t intended for your code but rather as a Developer specific Applications folder.

IDEs and debug tools and what have you. Xcode in earlier versions of Mac OS X installed to Developer

Is there anything that still automatically installs itself there?

If it's not used for that anymore, might as well use it for code.

/System/Developer still exists, though it doesn't contain anything

/Library/Developer is where Xcode's Command-line tools install too, your apple sdk's, along with a copy of clang, swift, and git

Neither of them seem to have cool icons though

There's also a Developer directory (somewhere) within the Xcode app bundle.

Counterpoint is that it requires the shift key, is relatively long (compared to, say, src) and shares the “De” prefix with Desktop.

That said, it’s what I use.

> Counterpoint is that it requires the shift key

Nope. MacOS's filesystem is by default case-insensitive but case-preserving:

    cd ~/developer

and

    cd ~/Developer

should both work if you have a subdirectory called "Developer" in your homedir.