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I would like to know if someone has instructions on how to set up a development environment if such a thing is encouraged. I am on Linux and that is really the only platform I am interested in developing for (I don't think I would set up a mac or windows environment).

It's not that difficult, you just need to clone the repo and open it in a Java IDE (IntelliJ IDEA is recommended) and wait for gradle initialization. You shouldn't have any issues setting it up on Linux.