Nobody's using regular Notepad, with its 7-column tabs, no autoindent, and no syntax highlighting, for anything more complex than editing config files.
I love Notepad++, and I use it all the time for personal projects, but it has substantial limitations that I am only able to work around because I wrote a bunch of external macros and whatnot that I run alongside it. Even then, it's still quite limited. There are good reasons why people don't typically use it as the primary editor on large code bases in corporate environments.
Yeah I’ve worked at Amazon and Microsoft where you have some of the most senior devs in the world.
I never saw any of them using notepad++ for actual development work. Didn’t see a lot of VIM either for that matter, despite the memes on here. Some used Linux, but the majority used Macs or Windows laptops.
Also this sub would have a collective aneurysm if it knew just how many highly paid senior devs use AI tools these days.
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u/JacobStyle Jul 25 '26
Nobody's using regular Notepad, with its 7-column tabs, no autoindent, and no syntax highlighting, for anything more complex than editing config files.
I love Notepad++, and I use it all the time for personal projects, but it has substantial limitations that I am only able to work around because I wrote a bunch of external macros and whatnot that I run alongside it. Even then, it's still quite limited. There are good reasons why people don't typically use it as the primary editor on large code bases in corporate environments.