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This is a really interesting topic. Some rhetorical questions that I have: Does anyone measure ramp up time for new devs on a project and/or new hires on a team? What is typical? Is this a metric which companies try to improve?

It can be done, with a boostrap file to install ansible, that kicks of a ansible playbook to setup docker and osx settings ( if your on osx or other os settings ), start a docker container with all the tools you need something like https://github.com/cloudposse/geodesic, that combined with something like https://www.gitpod.io/ , a custom cli like https://github.com/mumoshu/variant and something like https://k3d.io/v5.4.1/ for local kubernetes clusters can get you a pretty decent portable local environment, thats actually how I run my local environment.

Though this would be cool from a tech perspective, my very biased opinion is that this is going the wrong way. It would either take containerization (article recommends this) or complete sterilization and lockdown of a machine. Me and my cofounders are literally building a company by betting on cloud hosted dev environments. It's way easier to get power, consistency, and scale. This has been a long time coming but I think we're hitting an inflection point where this space is going to see a lot of adoption. Shameless plug: usenimbus.com if you want to see what we're working on

Fair enough so here is my problem with a saas option, let's say I get used to that workflow then move to a company that does not have the budget to get a specific saas tool, then I'm back to step 0 and having to go back to my old workflow, don't get me wrong saas software is a great convineience but not for everyone

Hell yeah issue everybody ChromeOS systems and stop worrying about the hell of endpoint compromises. Cloud dev environments for all.

We want a new hire to commit code in 30m