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I completely agree with you for documentation that is not developer centric. A wiki and a WYSIWYG editor is the way to go there. Though it is funny to see PMs and other people fight with say the Confluence editor (that's what I'm stuck with at the moment @work and they've recently effed up the Jira editors as well in favour of non-developers). It's abysmal and since they changed it to remove proper wiki syntax editing I can't even really fix things for them easily and have to use workarounds myself instead of teaching them a little bit of wiki markup syntax from time to time or using it myself to fix things. It's like MS Word and everyone learning all the workarounds of how to undo weird formatting or fix documents. What was wrong with LaTeX? :)

That is absolutely not what we're talking about here though. If a project manager really wants to set up a local dev env for whatever reason, they can be my guest but don't expect me to tailor our whole everything around them and not my developers.



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