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highest level in version control: "Has tried out Bzr/Mercurial/Darcs/Git"

this page must be dated! I wonder how many other cells contain errors as well...

the IDE section is a bit dated. as a hiring manager, my belief is that IDEs are good enough (and even have collab features that are good in work-at-home-epoch) that it's not an unreasonable to never use/never have used vi/vim/emacs.

If you're doing server administration, not being able to use vi is unacceptable; but these days everything is deployed by container and logging into raw linux systems is not really a thing as much (your company may beg to differ and that's fine).

emacs _is_ an IDE.

Some might say the best IDE

Is nano really That Bad? It's always been good enough for my needs, and in the cases where it's not I generally hop on Sublime or vscode, make the changes I want to make, then paste it into my term.

It isn't, but frequently the default editor is set to vim. That said I would question the judgement of anyone that judges you based on your favored editor.

Except emacs, those folks will burn in hell.

In interviews I ask candidates what their favourite editor is. Not to judge the choice, but to try to gauge if they care enough about the tools they use to have looked at different ones and taken a position.

I feel that there is a strong correlation between overall competency and whether someone cares about their tools, and their passion for their editor is a way of getting hints of that

It's not that nano is bad, but for server administration you cannot be sure what exists on the other end, and due to security rules you can't always install what you want, except, there will always be vi. Nano might not be there when you need it (I have learned this the hard way).

The place nano is best is in environments which aren't otherwise setup for working on. e.g. a fresh linux install or some ephemeral server/container. If you can do this remotely e.g. with the VSCode Remote, great.

I'd suggest if you know a few vi keybindings, vi would be better than nano. e.g. navigating through the document will be quicker with vi than nano.

I remember seeing this many years ago when svn was the most popular version control unlike that absurd cvs

I’m trying to figure out if VSS = Visual Sourcesafe and if so one has to really question the age.

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