[jf22]

>Nobody’s doing anything like that for other productivity tools even when they’re proven to be helpful.

Isn't mandating IDE usage a perfectly reasonable and common thing?

It's a productivity tool after all.

[kylereeve]

I've never seen an IDE "mandated", I've seen officially supported development setups where you're on your own if you do anything different. Is that not the standard?

[jf22]

Your job will look pretty funny at you if you want to code everything by hand while everyone else is using VSCode.

[strange_quark]

I've literally never seen this and I've been around for awhile. There's always people with some bespoke vim or emacs setup while everyone else is just using Jetbrains or VSCode or whatever, and nobody cares at all as long as that person is getting their work done.

[jf22]

Still an IDE right?

[gdulli]

I'd never have worked at a place that mandated a specific IDE. Luckily it's something I never encountered, if it's ever done this is the first I'm hearing about it.

[jf22]

But you'd have to use an IDE right?

[gdulli]

No, it never occurred to me that anyone would care. I don't think many of my bosses or teammates could have named my choice of IDE/editor even after working with me for a while. I'm sure I mentioned it occasionally but I don't think anyone would care enough to remember.

I was usually most productive with a text editor as opposed to an IDE but I'd sometimes use an IDE as needed or when I wanted to try something new.

[jmuguy]

But there's other reasons for that - makes support easier, can have same linting setup etc, its not done to increase productivity.

[jf22]

Both of your examples increase productivity.