> Is it uncommon to use dedicated VMs for development for this very reason? ... or on the production deployment's computer (which presumably is also "your" com

> Is it uncommon to use dedicated VMs for development for this very reason? ... or on the production deployment's computer (which presumably is also "your" computer, and has a similar set of problems). (... or, if you go there, in production inside a VM, but in the same context and with access to everything from and all the memory and capabilities as the rest of the code you wrote, such as access to networking and the database or arbitrary CPU utilization.)