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by compiler-guy 1473 days ago
Google lives and does by its distributed build system. Most devs don’t even have exactly have code on their local workstation either—it comes via remotely mounting a file system.

But 99.9% of the builds happen remotely. So local vs remote code just isn’t that relevant.

It is also true that Google spends millions and millions on its dev environment every year, so this isn’t your average “no code on laptops” situation.