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The limiting factor here is the IDE experience. You can build all this amazing architecture to provision and serve the source bits of the monorepo but if the IDE experience is janky? folks will not adopt it. The slow adoption rate speaks to that. If it truly was a productivity boom we would see a sharp spike to near 90% or more. Instead we see a slow change which is more akin to a mandate and all docs heavily suggesting for folks to use it.

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Both VS Code and IntelliJ have first class support for remote development as referenced in the article. I have been using Github codespaces for a while now and you can't nearly tell you aren't developing locally. Add to that faster builds without your laptop sounding like a jet engine.

I’m not sure what repo sizes your developing in, but at big enough numbers, the set of protobuf/thrift definitions, package dependencies, and sheer number of files being looked at, brings all the remote products to their knees. IntelliSense and other syntax, highlighting, chokes.

The biggest services/apps at Uber are not developed in devpods. Speculative, but these IDE’s were developed first as local first environments, there’s lots assumptions they make, adding up to terrible latency.

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