> I would be happy to let go of an employee who bank their employment on the preference of toolings.
> Toolings are, like the name suggests, a means to an end.
It goes both ways. Employees are paid to accomplish an end, and I understand employees who are happy to walk away from an employer that micromanages the means to that end down to preferences in tooling. The reason you quit isn't because you miss Emacs (even if you do), the reason you quit is because your boss doesn't even trust you to choose a text editor.
That said, if the thing is your own product, yeah I get it: dogfooding is important. That said, I know of teams at Microsoft who do their (OS-agnostic) work on macOS... at some point accomplishing the end is more important than dogfooding, and you just let the workers use the tools that they're comfortable with.
> Toolings are, like the name suggests, a means to an end.
It goes both ways. Employees are paid to accomplish an end, and I understand employees who are happy to walk away from an employer that micromanages the means to that end down to preferences in tooling. The reason you quit isn't because you miss Emacs (even if you do), the reason you quit is because your boss doesn't even trust you to choose a text editor.
That said, if the thing is your own product, yeah I get it: dogfooding is important. That said, I know of teams at Microsoft who do their (OS-agnostic) work on macOS... at some point accomplishing the end is more important than dogfooding, and you just let the workers use the tools that they're comfortable with.