[debosmit]

This is really not true - a poor implementation shouldn't dictate the direction of the "remote development" space. Sure, IT and security have their requirements, but primary requirement is to make the developers happy and provide them with reproducible dev environments.

I used to work at Uber and what we ended up doing with devpod (https://www.uber.com/blog/devpod-improving-developer-product...) was to enable the popular IDEs to connect to these remote environments - all the dotfiles etc etc were persisted so it literally felt like the local IDE, just way faster. Admittedly, it costs a bunch of money to build internally, but there's a path to having people be happy with dev environments.

(we collected data on what IDEs to prioritize based on surveys)

[fragmede]

Why use a survey and not just ask the endpoints directly? Presumably the laptops are managed and are running something like Santa on them. Would remove bias to get the data this way.

[debosmit]

yea - we had that too (good for understanding how laptop tooling worked, and what areas were starting to show latencies and therefore, needed to be worked on)

surveys were anonymized