“In the year 2000… you will be able to instantly replicate your colleague’s dev environment on your own computer.”
Non issue, most companies use VMs for their dev environments for this reason among others.
Non issue, most companies use VMs for their dev environments for this reason among others.
At my company, we give developers several days (up to a week at times) to get everything downloaded, installed, setup, configured, etc. It's a huge drain but then again, you should've seen it 2-3 years ago, at which point the only avoidance of duplicated efforts was by virtue of having a single portable HD which held all of our databases [for use in testing]. The data was 5 years old at the time...