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Microsoft employee here. I still regularly see engineers use notepad as the default text editor. back in 2001, I met a windows kernel engineer who used notepa

Microsoft employee here. I still regularly see engineers use notepad as the default text editor. back in 2001, I met a windows kernel engineer who used notepad as his primary source code editor. I don't really understand it but notepad still gets a lot of use from a wide range of people.

mandeepj 8y ago
> I met a windows kernel engineer who used notepad as his primary source code editor. oh man! He is missing out a lot. Notepad struggles a lot with edit history. Undo\redo is completely messed up. I try not to do with it. Gone through a really bad experience, many times.