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That's disappointing. I used to use Notepad++ heavily but it seems to have really lagged behind other lightweight text editors like Visual Studio Code
by nijave 3y ago
That's disappointing. I used to use Notepad++ heavily but it seems to have really lagged behind other lightweight text editors like Visual Studio Code
- hnuser123456 3y agoI'm going back and forth between those two and find it hard to leave NP++, but I know VSCode is superior in other ways besides minimalism. If the dev has a good response to this disclosure I'll probably continue to not be in a hurry to leave it.
- ulrischa 3y agoI also use both. Notepad++ is better for quick and dirty editing
- arthur2e5 3y agoIt's hard to beat an extensible project maintained by Microsoft with a Windows C++ project written by one guy. (I personally ditched n++ because the shell highlighting false-positives errors, and syntax errors are especially ugly in the default scheme. And it wasn't on GitHub back then, so complaining would be a chore.)
- wink 3y agoInterestingly my number #1 killer feature for N++ seems to be "having multiple unsaved files open and they are transparently saved and restored after restarting the app". In the past I've judged people who did this with a "just save your damn files" but since I, too, have converted to the ephemeral notes buffer where I don't want to find a location and file name to save it. The funny thing is that my N++ instance has ~5 files always opened, 3-4 of those buffers and when they get to 6 or 7 I trim them down to 3-4. This is probably the beginning of why we find people doing weird things...
- nijave 3y agoBeen using Bear on macOS (work) and Obsidian on Linux (personal use) for that now
- bakugo 3y agoVS Code is not at all lightweight compared to NP++.
- daef 3y agolightweight like vscode made me chuckle
- sumtechguy 3y agoOk it was not just me then. I use both. NP++ for like single documents or quick kanban lists for myself. VSCode is better for a group of closely related items such as when using it as an IDE. As I do not keep both open all the time NP++ usually wins on startup speed. Which fits my workflow.
- nebulous1 3y agoI think they wrote "lightweight text editor" but really they meant lightweight editors, with a loose classification of full-blown IDEs as heavyweight and everything lighter as lightweight, VSCode being the heaviest in the lightweight category.
- baal80spam 3y ago> lightweight text editors like Visual Studio Code I wouldn't call anything based on Electron "lightweight". My completely subjective list of text editors in order of lightweightness: Notepad2 - a feather Notepad++ - a dog VS Code - an elephant
- briHass 3y agoI haven't used it in a long time, but Textpad was my go-to ultra light. At the time, it only supported ASCII (no Unicode) so it only used one byte per character. I frequently had to open files that would hit 32 bit memory limits.
- esrauch 3y agoIf VS Code is an elephant than what are VS, IntelliJ, Eclipse? Skyscrapers? Aircraft carriers?
- layer8 3y agoWhales
- petepete 3y agoEclipse is a herd of cattle sellotaped together in the shape of a giant cow.
- eru 3y agoYes. Though they don't pretend to be text editors.
- delfinom 3y agoIntelliJ and VS are like two different models of US aircraft carrier Eclipse is like that one Russian aircraft carrier.
- pc86 3y agoThey're not text editors.
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- stockerta 3y agoDo you know what lightweight means?
- zb10948 3y ago200MB download, 500MB install. "Lightweight text editor" There are - text editors - programmers text editors - integrated development environments - rapid application development tools Sorted by size, reversely proportional to feature set. Basically VSCode is an overbloated #2, that isn't good enough to be #3 and is nowhere near #4. You could've fit a full blown RAD into 500MB (Borland C++ Builder) 20 years ago.
- flohofwoe 3y agoIt's 4 potential memory corruption issues in a 300kloc C/C++ code base, only one "may be critical" (without a working exploit being provided that's hard to tell). That's actually not too bad for an "unsafe" language.
- lelanthran 3y ago> It's 4 potential memory corruption issues in a 300kloc C/C++ code base, only one "may be critical" (without a working exploit being provided that's hard to tell). That's actually not too bad for an "unsafe" language. It's about normal. It's also why Rust is struggling to eat into C and C++ marketshare - the class bugs it prevents has such a tiny footprint compared to all the bugs present in any given C and C++ system that it doesn't motivate the developers to spend the time Rust requires to ramp up to speed on a new language, and then use it in production.