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I remembered this Geany example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePZEkbbf3fc

Bio:

> My name is Kamil Dębowski (or Errichto) and I'm quite good at competitive programming. I'm a finalist of multiple big programming competitions like ICPC, Facebook Hacker Cup and Google Code Jam (even got 2nd place in 2018). I also organize competitions, which means inventing and preparing problems.

Not sure if they still use Geany, or if you consider this person legendary (some people really gatekeep around words like that), but there's at least a data point for you.

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That's for competitive programming, you really want to stick with the most common tools there. Otherwise you have to learn different set of stuff for each on-site competition. Common as in "included in the standard OS image at competitions".

For example, I use Far Manager/Kate for competitive programming and small scripts (sometimes Vim), but not way I use any of these for professional development.

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?

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.

interesting, had no idea of those limitations / considerations in competitive programming

Had not seen that before thank you!

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