> issues, scale up difficulties and checkbox security cargo cults.
> You don't want to work for those companies
I can’t defend the likes of Citrix but I’ve been the guy who has to tell an intern on their last day to hand over the flash drive with code we know they copied over the day before. Sometimes avoiding those issues is easier.
Also weird tech stacks are a real issue (but there are lots of developer-native tools for the job).
> It's notably different if you have a cloud VM running linux and you're connecting to it with VScode or something over SSH. That's borderline acceptable. The reality is usually some horrible AWS, Azure or Citrix portalised solution however.
100% agree. VSCode and VM is my only accepted solution now.