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Notepad++ v8.4.9 Release
- jkic47 4y agoI've used this editor for years and am always amazed at how such high-quality tools can be developed by people with a passion to create something useful. Don, thanks so much for this body of work.
- flykespice 4y agoI fondly remember one of my very first editors I used to start coding as a kid was Notepad++, almost a decade ago. It was simple, minimal so that it didn't take much of the precious internet bandwidth downloading and space in my parents computers, it still kept a balance on being powerful enough so that you could install a wide range of plugins provided, heck there was even a plugin that could play tetris.
- TAKEMYMONEY 4y agoYou can really tell the "only read the title" comments on this one
- flykespice 4y agoYes? do you have a problem? Do you think I would care to read about the release when I dropped Notepad++ almost a decade ago? I only came here to recall my fond memories from reading title because it has been a long time since I last heard about Notepad++, and move on. Welcome to HN, where there are people who only comment by the title and don't bother the content further, if it doesn't interests them.
- wadd1e 4y agoGood lord, what's wrong with people? Why vandalise the project on Github? Everything about the situation, right from folks not understanding an obvious joke to vandalising the issues page is anger inducing.
- ItsHarper 4y agoNot to mention getting angry that the author called out genocide
- deafpolygon 4y agoAmazing how long this project has been going. N++ was one of the very first editors I used on Windows 98 back in the day. I used it to edit HTML and Perl, which got uploaded using WinFTP.. when I think about it, it's amazing everyone didn't get hacked because of how much we used FTP without encryption.
- deafpolygon 4y agoThinking back, it was probably XP that I used it with.
- andrewflnr 4y agoI think I started with it on XP, but brought it forward to at least 7, which is when I mostly stopped voluntarily interacting with Windows. :D
- nicbou 4y agoWhat exactly angered Chinese users so much? I'm missing some important context here
- genocidicbunny 4y agoI'm missing most of the context too, but from the twitter thread linked to by the dev, it seems that a lot of Chinese posters immediately started firing back as though he was attacking China specifically. I know the Notepad++ dev has made some spicy comments but I don't recall if there were any directed towards the Chinese government.
- colejohnson66 4y agoIt was related to Hong Kong and the genocide, which some in China agree with
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoI think it's similar to how certain Americans get squirrelly when people talk about racial brutality, like I imagine we'd get a lot of weird people sending cringe messages if they named a release "Justice for Trayvon Martin"
- AdmiralAsshat 4y agoThe creator titled one of the previous releases "Free Uyghur", IIRC, which made many Chinese users upset.
- simplotek 4y agoIf you get upset by people who state that genocide is bad, you're rooting for the bad guys.
- phantomathkg 4y agoAnd a lot of Chinese do really think like that. They think the advancement of economic is more important than the freedom of ethic group (and their own freedom).
- anotheryou 4y agowhat happened if they updated their design to the 2020s? it looks like win95 in a cute way, but it undersells it so hard :)
- ColonelPhantom 4y agoI'd really rather not have like, 4 giant balloon like buttons, instead of the simple yet powerful menu&toolbar setup that N++ has used for what, multiple decades at this point? And it's great: the menus contain a LOT of functionality, and the toolbar also contains quite a bit of the most-used stuff.
- zerocommandyarn 4y agoI’m Chinese. And I can testify that a lot of my colleagues in China do not think the genocide is happening while IT IS SOOO REAL!!! They are extremely ignorant and look down on Uyghur people, knowing that if you are Uyghur you can’t even have a passport!!! Yet, they still stand with the gov. They justify their reason as tech should leave politics alone and having political views is not professional while at the same time being sexism publicly in workplace. I for one cannot understand my Chinese mates as well.
- kvduba 4y ago+1. All I can feel right now is extreme disappointment.
- realusername 4y agoThat's what happen after multiple decades of government brainwashing in a closed environment, the Chinese society desperately need some therapy on a nationwide level.
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