Q. In your experience, is it wise to let developers to choose their own IDEs and development platform? CONTEXT: I am working on
Java and in my new job, I've been given the option of constructing my own development desktop. Do you have any experience of problems in the dev cycle when developers use different IDEs e.g. IDEA vs Eclipse, Linux/unix versus windows OS ?
My hunch is that the thing that glues everything together are the SCMs like CVS/Subversion. If your dev system can checkin/checkout, you're all set. What do you think?