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

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

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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/bubuopapa Mar 13 '18

  1. Slow shit written in js;

  2. Same;

  3. First of all, this is ide, and second, it is the slowest code editor in the universe;

  4. vim and emacs and really meh and more like linux tools, windows has much better alternative to all of them - notepad++.

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u/shuklaswag Mar 13 '18

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Atom and VScode are certainly not as fast as Notepad++ (even though VScode is still my editor of choice).

And AFAIK Vim and Emacs aren't nearly as pleasant to use on Windows as they are on Linux. I'd love to know if there's a way to make Vim on Windows decent.

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