How Google Built and Abandoned a Dozen Internal IDEs
Hacker News·2mo·laurentlb
A retrospective on Google's IDE evolution—from custom Java editors to Cloud Shell—reveals the tension between standardization and developer autonomy at scale. The pattern of building, iterating, then sunsetting tools offers hard lessons for any organization trying to wrangle thousands of engineers.
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