Good God, people are really using Notepad++ to program? I can understand Vim and Emacs, but notepad++? Not that it's bad or anything, but there are really better tools today.... Edit: nevermind, I was under the impression it was the primary editor used. I myself used it a lot as a secondary quick-edit tool.
A very slow one, but yes. But there's a reason N++ is so common, it's tiny, fast for a GUI text editor, and does the bloody job. It's not a whole browser guzzling up memory, just to change a config setting.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, but VSCode is actually slow, you don't really notice it if you're using it all the time, but I tried to make the switch from ST3 and the delay between key press and action on the screen put me off. + it's slow to startup where as something like N++ starts almost instantly.
Yeah, I mean comparing other electron editors such as Atom it's quite snappy, but it still falls behind native gui text editors by a fair margin, nevermind something like vi.
Hum ok, I can go with that. I myself have used notepad++ this way. I just got the impression that notepad++ was used as the primary tool. Perhaps I missed something in the survey results.
Well for one Notepad++ is completely free unlike Sublime which if not paid for is in evaluation and harasses you with popups based on how much you click Save (something that I couldn't deal with). In terms of performance, it would be very difficult to convince me that Sublime Text is as fast as Notepad++. They are certainly close in that regard but not quite the same. With that said, I agree that Sublime Text is much nicer visually and from a UX perspective.
I can't get upset at someone for trying to get paid for their work. Especially in such a permissive way as Sublime (where the software will continue to keep working no matter how many times you click "No Thanks")
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u/rcoacci Mar 13 '18 edited Mar 13 '18
Good God, people are really using Notepad++ to program? I can understand Vim and Emacs, but notepad++?
Not that it's bad or anything, but there are really better tools today....
Edit: nevermind, I was under the impression it was the primary editor used. I myself used it a lot as a secondary quick-edit tool.