Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

• IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I heavily use both and this is objectively untrue.

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• zeropublix@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Those are 2 different t use case pieces of software

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• ExFed@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Clearly this is a controversial statement. I’m team “use what’s available and preference tools that get the job done quickly.”

  I work in several different languages. VSCode has TreeSitter and a bevy slick plug-ins. NP++ does not. I can use VSCode on both Windows and Linux. I will hands down pick VSCode over NP++ every time.

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  • kava@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    NP++ was good 20 years ago and it’s been coasting on that good will ever since

    It’s OK for a text editor (compared to something totally basic like notepad) but other text editors have caught up in every single category

    like you said, VS Code is now the default go to code editor for a lot of people. if you don’t use VS Code, you use vim.

    for non-coding uses, I don’t see the functional difference between NP++ or something basic like Gnome’s text editor

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    • ExFed@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Completely agreed. At one point, maybe 12 years ago, I remember trying to learn NP++'s macro system. It was better than whatever we had at the time, but I’m glad I didn’t spend more time than I had to. Just a couple months ago, a coworker was raving about how great NP++ macros are … to do a task handily solved by some light regular expressions and/or column edit mode. Both REs and CEM are far more ubiquitous concepts than some bespoke, domain-specific language for defining repetitive tasks.

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• MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Install time? Startup time? Useless bloat?

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