This is not enshittification. Here's where the term came from:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification
In what way is adding an AI assistant to Notepad either "abusing their users" or "abusing their business customers?" It seems like it's just a useful new feature to me.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fun fact: Most of the features that people liked about the “new” Windows notepad were just stolen from Notepad++ anyway.
So you may as well just use Notepad++ and enjoy a better experience, plus about a zillion other things like numerous plugins, syntax highlighting for just about every programming language under the sun, immensely configurable color schemes, etc., etc., etc.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Hardly “stolen”. Suff like tabs is very basic that n++ didn’t invent.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 4 months ago
And even if Notepad++ had invented it, it's not "stealing" to do the same thing. Notepad++ still has its tabs, nobody stole them. Copied them, maybe. Inspired by them, perhaps. "Stolen" is just a deliberately emotion-baiting term.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 months ago
Explorer still can’t do it though.
clearleaf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They had that in win10 as well for about a week and then they took it away hoping nobody noticed it so it could be a win11 feature instead.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
More likely they are direct ports of things from the highly popular Visual Studio Code as a lot of people used to bound out RAW HTML and other code in notepad for YEARS before Notepad++ was a thing.
LethalSmack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think you mean you discovered vs code years before you found notepad++
Notepad++ has been around since 2003 years and vs code has been around since 2015.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A lot of those features were in visual studio 6, which was released in the late 90s or early 00s. Tabbed files, syntax highlighting for their supported formats (though it was a lot more tightly bound to those languages, like there was a visual basic program and a separate visual c/c++, n++ is the first I remember with arbitrary language syntax highlighting support), pretty sure it had a plugin system, too.
And vs6 was just the first one I used, they might have been present in vs5 or earlier versions.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
No I am saying people where coding html in plan old notepad way before notepad +
And separately with MS having popularity with VS code they likely ported the dev functions to ms notepad there is a good chance notepad++ was not the inspiration.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Then those features in VS Code were most likely heavily inspired by Notepad++ as well.
TL;DR: There’s no reason to stick with a shitty Microsoft application for this task since N++ exists and is, was, and probably forever will be superior.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 months ago
You’re someone who likes pain huh?
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Was making HTML pages long before Notpad++ was a thing young one.
Not saying I would do it that way now.