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Wow, I'd totally forgotten about PSPad... it used to be my editor of choice back in the XP days. These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?). I t

Wow, I'd totally forgotten about PSPad... it used to be my editor of choice back in the XP days. These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?). I think PSPad could benefit from new screenshots on its website, even though it's clearly still being actively updated, the screenshots make it look like it stagnated 10 years ago.

maccard 6y ago
> These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?). I did 10 years ago, but I'm now using vscode (with a stint of sublime in the meantime!)
Jonnax 6y ago
Sublime is what I moved from Notepad++ from. It has good extensions and is very fast. These days I use Visual Studio Code. It's separate to Visual Studio. Code is open source and runs on Linux and OSX as well. There's a ton of extensions and it's super flexible.
- JediPig 6y ago
  ST4 is about to be released. The LSP plugin in ST4 brings it to the level of VSCode. I find this good news, mainly, i hate electron apps. ST4 speed is legendary.
- anaganisk 6y ago
  Technically vscscode isn't open source completely, it has many proprietary features.
  - dagw 6y ago
    Which features are closed source? I thought the only difference the source on GitHub and the binary you download from Microsoft was branding and configuration.
    - oaiey 6y ago
      Some of the extensions .. C# Debugger, Remote Server on WSL, SSH, Docker, whatever, Liveshare The modern magic stuff. but the core editor is like you described. Oh, and the market place itself.
      - jhgb 6y ago
        Apparently the official C++ extension is not licensed to run in Codium either...although technically it seems to work in Codium just fine. Don't ask how I know. ;)
      - TeMPOraL 6y ago
        Also C++ language server, Python language server... Which is kind of annoying to me, because the whole value proposition of VS Code to me is that it drives language sever development, which lets me use Emacs instead of VS Code :). Fortunately, Clang can cross-compile for Windows while pretending to be MSVC, so I figured out how to make clangd work with MSVC-specific codebases, and I'm good for now.
        oaiey 6y ago
        I think they are factoring some core capabilities of Visual studio into language servers and vscode gets a subset. Do they are protecting big VisualStudio.
  - drKarl 6y ago
    For a version of VSCode without the telemetry you can use VSCodium
poisonborz 6y ago
> These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?) In terms of souped up text editor, the exact transition that "everyone" made since: Notepad++ > Sublime Text > Atom > VSCode
- TeMPOraL 6y ago
  If by "everyone" you mean "developers when doing development work". I work in a Windows shop these days, and I see Notepad++ used by everyone - developers and managers alike - for poking around various configuration and log files.
- drKarl 6y ago
  For small edits, look at logs, scratchpad, open JSON or XML files Notepad++ > UltraEdit > Sublime Text For FrontEnd development Atom is nice but bloated > VSCode (arguably > Vim) For Java development Eclipse (or variants like RAD, STS) > IntelliJ Idea for other languages your mileage may vary...
- Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  You're not wrong; my only regret there is Atom, which never got the performance right when I used it. VS Code is not great in performance compared to ST either, but it does more and it's got a much bigger ecosystem and developer activities. ST feels more like a black box, irregular updates, vague provenance, etc. It works, and it worked really well for me back when (in the days when Javascript didn't have proper modules, documentation or types, think early days of NodeJS / NPM, Bower, BackboneJS, etc). But nowadays I'm not sure if it's keeping up with VS Code or IDE's. I'm mainly using intellij at the moment, but it's slow in its critical path - editing code (the main reason from moving away from it in the first place). An editor should NEVER lag or block when the user is typing. ST did this Right. Notepad++ probably does as well.
  - nerdponx 6y ago
    Sublime is still the most performant text editor I use. Its plugin ecosystem is not particularly healthy, but LSP helps bridge the gap with more advanced code editing tools. I mostly use it for quick edits, configuration files, etc. Sometimes I just want a break from Neovim I guess. I don't regret buying Sublime at all, but I do feel like some potential was wasted there.

maccard 6y ago

> These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?). I did 10 years ago, but I'm now using vscode (with a stint of sublime in the meantime!)

Jonnax 6y ago

Sublime is what I moved from Notepad++ from. It has good extensions and is very fast. These days I use Visual Studio Code. It's separate to Visual Studio. Code is open source and runs on Linux and OSX as well. There's a ton of extensions and it's super flexible.

JediPig 6y ago
ST4 is about to be released. The LSP plugin in ST4 brings it to the level of VSCode. I find this good news, mainly, i hate electron apps. ST4 speed is legendary.
anaganisk 6y ago
Technically vscscode isn't open source completely, it has many proprietary features.
- dagw 6y ago
  Which features are closed source? I thought the only difference the source on GitHub and the binary you download from Microsoft was branding and configuration.
  - oaiey 6y ago
    Some of the extensions .. C# Debugger, Remote Server on WSL, SSH, Docker, whatever, Liveshare The modern magic stuff. but the core editor is like you described. Oh, and the market place itself.
    - jhgb 6y ago
      Apparently the official C++ extension is not licensed to run in Codium either...although technically it seems to work in Codium just fine. Don't ask how I know. ;)
    - TeMPOraL 6y ago
      Also C++ language server, Python language server... Which is kind of annoying to me, because the whole value proposition of VS Code to me is that it drives language sever development, which lets me use Emacs instead of VS Code :). Fortunately, Clang can cross-compile for Windows while pretending to be MSVC, so I figured out how to make clangd work with MSVC-specific codebases, and I'm good for now.
      - oaiey 6y ago
        I think they are factoring some core capabilities of Visual studio into language servers and vscode gets a subset. Do they are protecting big VisualStudio.
- drKarl 6y ago
  For a version of VSCode without the telemetry you can use VSCodium

poisonborz 6y ago

> These days I use Notepad++ (doesn't everyone on Windows?) In terms of souped up text editor, the exact transition that "everyone" made since: Notepad++ > Sublime Text > Atom > VSCode

TeMPOraL 6y ago
If by "everyone" you mean "developers when doing development work". I work in a Windows shop these days, and I see Notepad++ used by everyone - developers and managers alike - for poking around various configuration and log files.
drKarl 6y ago
For small edits, look at logs, scratchpad, open JSON or XML files Notepad++ > UltraEdit > Sublime Text For FrontEnd development Atom is nice but bloated > VSCode (arguably > Vim) For Java development Eclipse (or variants like RAD, STS) > IntelliJ Idea for other languages your mileage may vary...
Cthulhu_ 6y ago
You're not wrong; my only regret there is Atom, which never got the performance right when I used it. VS Code is not great in performance compared to ST either, but it does more and it's got a much bigger ecosystem and developer activities. ST feels more like a black box, irregular updates, vague provenance, etc. It works, and it worked really well for me back when (in the days when Javascript didn't have proper modules, documentation or types, think early days of NodeJS / NPM, Bower, BackboneJS, etc). But nowadays I'm not sure if it's keeping up with VS Code or IDE's. I'm mainly using intellij at the moment, but it's slow in its critical path - editing code (the main reason from moving away from it in the first place). An editor should NEVER lag or block when the user is typing. ST did this Right. Notepad++ probably does as well.
- nerdponx 6y ago
  Sublime is still the most performant text editor I use. Its plugin ecosystem is not particularly healthy, but LSP helps bridge the gap with more advanced code editing tools. I mostly use it for quick edits, configuration files, etc. Sometimes I just want a break from Neovim I guess. I don't regret buying Sublime at all, but I do feel like some potential was wasted there.