Comment by taurath

I’m disappointed this wasn’t really about remote workers but about remote development as in code doesn’t live on the machine. That said, remote development tends to be awful, and more tools could be helpful if it’s not specific to a FBs particular implementation of remote dev shards. Learning that at Facebook you don’t develop things locally and likely are on a box with all sorts of things tracking your usage and access to everything lends even further credence to the big brother thing. I understand that for a codebase and app that’s too big to run on one client machine it makes sense, but what also makes sense is having piecemeal development environments where you just pull the components that you need.