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Et tu, Notepad?

Seriously, no one writes with Notepad. It's just for quick copy-paste text manipulation. That's it. No need for gen-AI.

I used Notepad to make simple HTML pages back in 1995 - maybe, two dozen lines of "<h1>" and "<blink>". That's the most text I've ever written in Notepad.



I assure you there are still many devs that use notepad regularly to write horrible code.


I was assigned a partner in my robotics class that used Wordpad to write Java code.


Smart devs write their horrible code in Notepad++


As much as I'd like to believe this isn't true...


I write with Notepad. No distractions, no temptation to add anything but text.

I write musings, short stories, song lyrics, etc. and keep an archive of all these text files to reflect on later. Sometimes I write notes and letters to my future self.

All notepad.


"need" has nothing to do with it




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