Comment by gregjor

Agree completely. I used to allow every programmer to set up their own dev environment. Inevitably we’d have things that worked for one person but not another, and low confidence in deploying to production.

Eventually I forced everyone to work with a controlled dev environment on a remote server. They can work over ssh with command line tools or VSCode. Dev environments get rigorously maintained to mirror production. I got some grumbling about latency (everyone works remotely from around the world), but that turns out to present much less friction than the almost-daily debugging sessions and dealing with MacOS vs Windows vs Linux inconsistencies.