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I don't necessarily disagree, I wasn't making a judgement positively or negatively.

This is starting to sound a lot like checked exceptions in Java.

This is the approach taken in git https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h

I've been doing remote development over RDP for the past 3 or so years. The one problem I have is if my internet is having a bad day the latency makes using something with a UI like IntelliJ unbearable at which point I just use vim over ssh.

I'm actually somewhat glad I got "baited" into watching it. I don't think I would have been as likely to watch it had it included toolchain.

Just give me the Windows XP UI

Is there any laptop manufacturer that doesn't ship complete bloat/mal/spy/ware in their products?

Having individuals own systems seems like a terrible practice. You're essentially creating a single point of failure if only one person understands how the system works.

I think this illustrates the cloud is unacceptable for anything more than storage and retrieval.

You can run in dedicated tenancy where you have the whole machine or a metal configuration where you also have the whole machine.