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Does someone actually still use Notepad++? Everyone I know has moved on years ago and now with Atom and stuff there really doesn't seem to be any selling points.

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It's small and fast. Atom is neither.

MANY people still use notepad++, it is significantly faster and mature.

It's Windows-only; that seems to be the main drawback.

It's much faster than Atom, try big log files :-)

Why wouldn't you just less that?

Yes - Tiny and quick. I use it for quickly scanning text, or making config file changes.

Of course. I want real native applications, not a browser shell.

Where do you draw the line here? Do you also refuse to use applications that use a GUI toolkit library?

A full browser is not just GUI toolkit library.

I draw the line in everything that uses a webview for purposes unrelated to rendering HTML.

I know a full browser isn't the same as a GUI toolkit, I'm trying to understand why you're drawing a line that you're OK with some software that uses some libraries, but you're not OK with software that uses others.

Not sure exactly what you mean by "a webview" (is this a specific library you're referring to?) but, as far as I know, software like atom does use a renderer to display HTML - that's the whole point.

Atom is just a browser in a different package.

This is where I draw the line, I only use web apps when no native options are available.

I stopped using it years ago when I found Sublime Text.

I wasn't advocating for Atom, but ST2 is expensive for average users while Atom provides same features and is free

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