Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 year agoNP++ is more lightweight and has some useful stuff builtin and easier to justify to IT dept to than a full IDE 🤷
Personally I prefer pycharm and Atom for my home needs.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Justifying it to IT makes a lot of sense actually.
Interesting you’re using atom, actually! Is it still getting much love? I assumed development would go by the wayside once Microsoft bought GitHub a few years ago
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah it’s on my personal machine, I use it alongside pycharm but it’s (atom) not my main IDE, I keep it because of a few things it does. I disagree vscode is the same, it’s a poorer implementation of pycharm IMHO.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m interested in what differs from atom about VSCode in your opinion. Wasn’t VSCode a fork of atom originally?
I’m personally not a big fan of heavy IDEs like the jetbrains products, so VSCode being lighter than pycharm (or any of the IDEA products) is a bonus to me.
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Look at Atom community. Speed to load is night and day.
For me, Vscode feels like a cheaper pycharm which is my primary IDE and wouldn’t change as I’ve tried vscode as an alt and it wasn’t good enough for how I work.