It's what I spend all day using as well. The dev environments I've either implemented or been a part of (web centric envs) have all used local folders mounted t

It's what I spend all day using as well. The dev environments I've either implemented or been a part of (web centric envs) have all used local folders mounted to VMs that provide that painless and fast requirement you speak of while removing any pain points associated with varying platforms. You dont need to sacrifice the former to achieve the latter.