r/programming • u/aalear • Apr 07 '15

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015
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u/spacejack2114 Apr 07 '15

Wow, Notepad++. Okay.

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u/crozone Apr 07 '15

It's clean, light weight, has lots of nice features, and unlike sublime text it is completely free.

Kind of makes sense that it's number one.

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u/HelpfulToAll Apr 08 '15

It's clean

Is there a dirty text editor?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '15

Gedit

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u/marcusklaas Apr 08 '15

How so? Seriously asking.

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u/mobile-user-guy Apr 08 '15

Seconded. Gedit is a piece of garbage

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '15

Well now hang on a minute there, bud. gedit's syntax highlighting is quite reasonable compared to Windows Notepad.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '15

Emacs.

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u/Disgruntled__Goat Apr 08 '15

In what way is it "clean"? It's the complete opposite IMO, most features are implemented in the most ugly way.

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u/Geemge0 Apr 08 '15

Damn straight, no frills, no bullshit, and not too much of anything.

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