> 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
In terms of souped up text editor, the exact transition that "everyone" made since:
Notepad++ > Sublime Text > Atom > VSCode
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.
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.
I don't regret buying Sublime at all, but I do feel like some potential was wasted there.
It also saved your undo buffer on close so you could still undo next time you opened a file.
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...