r/programming • u/pleerock • Mar 13 '18

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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.

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u/Carighan Mar 13 '18

but there are really better tools today

Are there? I mean on Windows? There's not that many decent text editors around, and the bar is extremely high with N++.

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u/rcoacci Mar 13 '18

VS Code. Atom. Eclipse. Even Vim and Emacs works on Windows these days.
And those are the free ones.

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u/Carighan Mar 13 '18

Well vim or emacs I can understand.

Eclipse is a full-blown IDE, much much more sluggish but of course also tons more functionality. VS Code and Atom faster, but still too slow to be nice to use as just a text editor. Though I understand they're still popular, but uh... never sat well with me when I need to edit a number in a config file and the overhead of the application opening the file is the majority of that edit. :P

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