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Re:Ask HN: What modern “legendary” programmer prefers IDE ot... by themodelplumber on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:49PM (#33713658)
Trying to understand this--are Far Manager & Kate included in the standard OS image at competitions, but your favorite work IDE is not? Or is it more that your work config files & plugins are not available/needed in competitions?
Re:Ask HN: What modern “legendary” programmer prefers IDE ot... by yeputons on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:29PM (#33713935)
Yes. In some competitions about ten years ago in ex-USSR it was typically Windows + Far Manager (maybe some other stuff, but not always), in international competitions it was some flavor of Linux with a stock KDE (hence Kate) or GNOME (hence Gedit).

No professional IDEs almost certainly (no license to use), and the set of free IDEs depends on what organizers like: some installed NetBeans, some installed Eclipse CDT, some did both, some did neither.

No external resources like configs and plugins are typically allowed either.

Of course, it depends on a competition. I'm mostly talking about IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics for school students) and ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest). Online competitions are another beast.