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Setting up a working dev environment can take days to a week+ in my experience. On boarding can take a while, so getting a VM image or whatever that works out o
by spicybright 4y ago
Setting up a working dev environment can take days to a week+ in my experience. On boarding can take a while, so getting a VM image or whatever that works out of the box that you can build on is a really good thing.
It's great too because if your own environment breaks, you can compare to a working one to fix it.
Just because a company might abuse it doesn't mean we should avoid it.
- eikenberry 4y agoI have no problem with the idea of having a pre-existing image to kick off your dev setup. Just more that, human nature being what it is, it is unlikely to stop there. It will vary from company to company of course and I think my current company would adopt it in a good way but I also can think of one or two previous employers who would politicize and abuse the idea. IE. it's no slam dunk. Like any other tool of this sort is will be used for good and ill.