What works for me is figuring out the platforms I need to support and creating a build pipeline that can handle those requirements. If you join onto a project I

What works for me is figuring out the platforms I need to support and creating a build pipeline that can handle those requirements. If you join onto a project I don't want you playing around with libraries on your local machine. If you are I consider that a failure of the build script/makefile/docker compose file/etc. First it's lost productivity, second you might get it wrong and have misleading results, causing more lost productivity. A lot of places do this nonsense "spend hours configuring your machine" method for projects. The only reason I can think of doing that is "job security" and who wants to keep a job with horrible tooling? But yeah, it takes effort to do.