Yeah, the author obviously has never used Visual Studio (Or Eclipse or SlickEdit or...) in the last decade or so. However, the "real world deployment" thing is

Yeah, the author obviously has never used Visual Studio (Or Eclipse or SlickEdit or...) in the last decade or so. However, the "real world deployment" thing is kind of a spectrum. There's definitely the super-tight provisioning/deployments with ec2/puppet/jenkins/etc, but it goes all the way down to "have debian and hand-install widgets". That seems to depend on the organization's willingness to buy into the "cloud" idea, which seems to be regulated by the leadership's comfort with software.