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> Second, approximately 50% of developers work in remote dev environments

I'm curious to know the source for this, it strikes me as odd. I wouldn't have put it anywhere close to even 5%, and it's hard for me to imagine how you would get there... maybe by counting containerization for dev purposes?

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Hey there, you can find this data in the JetBrains report here: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/remote-dev/

There are also other sources, and the numbers might vary, but it is quite a significant number in all reports.

Note: 'remote' does not mean 'cloud'; rather, it indicates that the development environments are not on localhost

'do you ever edit code on a remote machine' (which then further gets into Do you do that by SSH, Remote Desktop, or other) is pretty different than 'work in remote dev environments' implies.

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