Further: it's possible to select for whatever makes your particular shop special. Fifteen years ago "only early adopters with the foresight to learn ColdFusio

Further: it's possible to select for whatever makes your particular shop special. Fifteen years ago "only early adopters with the foresight to learn ColdFusion" might have been the metric. If reliability and predictability are the goals (and I think they are with this kind of thing), I think a far more sensible approach would be to treat developer groups like cults. "You can code however you want at home; here we are dogmatic, and everyone uses JetBrains. Everyone tests, everyone debugs, everyone ships." It sounds draconian and not altogether pleasant (and I agree), but I wonder if it might be a solution for companies who distrust off-the-street devs so much that they erect hiring barriers out of fear.