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Replit blog: Combatting 'software development environment rot'

Software development environments can suffer from 'rot,' a gradual increase in complexity that hinders progress. This issue is often unnoticed by developers until it becomes a significant problem. To combat this, teams should focus on streamlining the developer onboarding process, aiming for a setup time under an hour, and optimizing the end-to-end workflow for tasks like fixing typos, which should ideally take less than ten minutes. Fostering a culture of automation can also significantly boost productivity by reducing time spent on repetitive tasks. AI

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    Don't Let Your Development Environment Rot

    Most systems -- both natural and artificial -- decay, rot, and eventually die. Software is no different. A lot has been written about fighting "software rot" but there's another type of rot related to software that's not talked about much -- the development environment rot. When …