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Anyone who longs for internal, corporate tooling baffles me

A previous employer had an all-proprietary stack: language, IDE, version control, deployment system, database, job scheduler. It was, frankly, amazing. The most productive environment I’ve ever worked in. Time-to-market was this company’s competitive advantage and this stack let them leave their competitors in the dust, scrabbling for a distant second place.

everyone has access to the best tools,

It’s 5 years since I left there and the FOSS tooling we use at my present company doesn’t come close, and it never will, because choices are driven from the basic assumption that FOSS is always best, and it just isn’t true. We are at least 5 years behind where the previous company was when I left it and they won’t have stood still in that time.