Pianos

Some amount of standardization is good and appropriate. I strongly believe that a dev’s tools are their personal choice, though. Barring ludicrous choices, like writing code in Word or TextEdit, let people use what works best for them.

This particular manager insisted I drop Emacs and learn his IDE du jour, even though I’d been using and tweaking my setup for well over a decade at that point. We ended up having a conversation about the appropriate amount of managing of a professional staff.