• admiralteal@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Notepad is definitionally not an IDE. It is not an integrated environment – and anyone who is intentionally using it over alternatives is almost certainly doing so precisely because they do not want their text editor to be an integrated environment. That’s why apps like Notepade++ exist.

    The reason other text editors like – like Notepad++ or Neovim – can be full IDEs is because they have plugins to generate that integrated experience.

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      11 months ago

      Tomato Tomahto.

      There’s a reason they’re adding Copilot in it, and it’s not because people don’t use it for programming, even if it’s not technically an IDE.

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        11 months ago

        I think perhaps you don’t know what an IDE is.

        Notepad isn’t “technically” not an IDE. It does not have any of the features that make an IDE an IDE.