Comment by LAC-Tech
11 hours ago
This idea of forcing every programmer to use the same IDE is incredibly depressing. I only associate that with really low tier outfits here in NZ, to think that leading companies want to do this too is disheartening (because of course everyone and their dog will copy it).
Fight for your autonomy as a dev, because they will always want to take it away.
It's not about forcing everyone to use the same IDE. It's about making sure that there's at least one IDE that everyone can use.
Over time, engineers realize that Code Search is more important than their IDE.
Some of the most productive engineers I know at Google are proud (and adaptable) VIM users, always have been, and nobody is going to tell them they should use anything else. They're also just fine with AI tooling, and fit it right into their VIM workflows.