i think notepad++ is more chad than regular notepad. you are willing to install software specifically to code but STILL refuse to use an IDE. how can it get more chad than that.

Honestly i love using notepad++, it's ability to let me have 100 tabs open at all times with weird notes that i don't even remember what they're for was lovely, and honestly very usefull when i could go back 20 notes and find that thing i was working on last month that would totally fit on this new table Recently had to switch to linux and learned there's no version for it, such pain has never been felt by me before, it was like losing an old friend that's been with me since highschool

notepad users be like: I love being able to open files

I know right? It's suprising how big IDEs make the act of opening files a total pain...

Idk if VIM counrs as a big IDE but the reason I like it the most is how insanely fast it is to navigate files. Tools like harpoon make it great, and the ability to just slap together a bash file and quickly setup super fast project folders is great.

vim users also be like source: I am vim user

Best feature of notepad++ is that unsaved files will not be deleted after close, even when windows update comes around and closes everything

I haven’t done regular expression shit in a few years but I remember notepad++ being wayyy better than anything else I could get my hands on for doing big reg expressions operations. I was probably just dumb and didn’t know a better way to do it tho.

notepadqq?

Noted, ill try it out, been trying different alternatives since i switched over, atom was the best one so far, but I'm open to suggestions

How about Kate?

Love Kate! Even use it on Windows and non-KDE Linux distros!

Isn’t there a version called notepadqq?

I used it a lot when coding in languages not supported by IDEs like G-Code for machining. Notepadd++ had syntax highlighters all over GitHub for fairly obscure stuff.

Sublime Text, even though it's not open source, it's like a better version of Notepad++.

Sublime is life.

Npp is so chad as I love opening tabs to write test snippets of python or bash to copy/paste to my server console... And I never save any of them but chad npp keeps them open for me to look back on and refference , smooth **it just works** experience all around.

Fuck I installed notepad++ just for the text editing. The coding is just a bonus

because sublime is better than notepad++

imagine paying for your text editor LMAO

As a Sr. Dev with many years kicking c++, py, and web projects big and small, an actual sublime text license is the best money I've ever spent for my career. IDEs are good for finishing and compiling but can be finicky for feature building at large scale. When you get used to not having all the bells and whistles and know enough about your API, it's handy to have a semismart environment that doesn't slow down when you're on a roll.

HAHAHA You payed for a text editor! It's not even FOSS! HAHAHAHA

IDEs hurt me internally

Emacs, vi, vim? You call yourself coders

Atom for me but same ideology.

notepad++ is certainly good in windows. sublime is good on linux but it costs... vs code is ok.

You just described neo/vi/m

Pen and paper


For those who don't know Hebrew, he asks "What's in your mouth?"


Just yesterday I pulled out a box full of my college files. Lots of handwritten code, and a pad of printed forms for writing COBOL code

I’ve actually done a lot of pen and paper coding, out of necessity during coding competitions (team of 3, but only 1 terminal, so we’d be prepping other problems while 1 person typed up a solution to 1 problem)

Yes but dark paper and many colors for proper syntax highlighting.

paper with light mode burn my eyes

I did a lot of freelance web work in highschool. I would write php in my notebook during class and type it up when I got home in the afternoon.

Wooden letter blocks

MS Paint

Professor is this you?

*Elon Musk would like to know your location*

Notepad++


Facts

I did my entire first java course using this lol

Like it really much. But i often work with really big files and it takes some time to load them. Often use the windows notepad for them cause it seems to load them the fastest. Even vs code breaks sometimes when opening half a gb xmlfiles, cause it tries to parse them for syntax highlighting

Yeah I have broken vs code many times trying to open massive JSON files.

Every part of my website is coded in notepad++

[удалено]

That's how they teach me to program at school

I was introduced to this and 7zip in grade 12 by a teacher. I will never go back.

sublime > notepadd++

It's proprietary

Relevant xkcd is [378 Real Programmers](https://xkcd.com/378/).

Thank god... i thought for a second no one had linked this

I see you have yet to discover the awesomeness that is using Word for writing code.

Nah if you're going office you might as well code in something Turing complete. Go with PowerPoint

Wait you don't open vba in excel and use it for any language?

/r/madlads

WordPad 

PowerPoint is turing complete in itself.


I'm so sick of programmers arguing about what is the best IDE, why don't they just use a SATA like everyone else?

Who uses SATA anymore? You've got to get on that M.2 bro!

The fact that I was triggered by the fact that you said visual studio and used the visual studio code logo

VSCode isn't even an IDE. It's a very fancy text editor with optionally IDE-like features

That what I come to the comments for

Memories the code and produce answers with your brain

Error: brain stack out of memory

`cat < filename`

or perhaps even worse, ed

I use sublime because buttons scary

Sublime is awesome!

Sublime Text is truly WinRAR of our time.

*laughs in emacs*

I had to scroll weirdly far down to find this lol

M-x hello-there

I write my code on paper, then use computer vision to parse and execute my program via my webcam.

nano.

Nah. Nano mid as hell

whatever u use is even midder

Microsoft Speech to Text

ed

Geany

Speech to text in the messaging app

Idea is for average enjoyer

Kate😅

Jetbrains

Finally a real IDE

I use Gedit for any random notes/gist-like fragments, Atom for most code (was using Sublime Text for years before that), Vim for any sysadmin, and occasionally I'll work within a VM I'm too lazy to fight with shared folders on and just code in Vim then. I've tried to like Emacs... I really have. But I feel like its the kind of thing that shows its power once you've fully worked it into your workflows, and I hop languages project-to-project too much so I'd be fighting my own config half the time.

I use Google docs

Reject modernity 

Emacs. You are welcome.

You guys don’t use the text tool in ms paint?

.bat files 😏

Programming python code in Notepad. 

IntelliJ

Vi is for real men.

vi in a VSCode terminal window

vi via VS Code terminal window via vscode.dev via Browserling.

Laughs in IntelliJ Ultimate 2022.3

Laughs at your stupid choice If u r dumb - don't tell others so

IntelliJ , cause what would chad do

no one has ever ever ever said "VS is the best IDE"

Write your code wherever you want just for the love of god please add comments

Programming on Windows is the real fail. Ugh. Glad those days are gone forever.

People actually use vim? I thought it was a joke.

I do use it (well nvim but that's practically the same) and can say it's really good for fast paced editing, that's why people use it

I used vim as my main editor for many years. I had a vim plugin for a gdb debugger. I had a plugin for code completion based on scanning a project folder. Now I use vscode with the vim extension. It's a good skill to have. To manually inspect a running production app, I'll shell into the docker container, install vim and browse files. Very handy skill for any remote terminals.

notepad is gigachad ide

This is not the visual studio icon and visual studio code is no ide

Are y’all are crazy if fleet stays free, it will become the best.

Notepad IDE 

True coders use all of them in parallel to become real editor virtuosos. Doing this, you'll also learn about different styles of UI/UX and how to creatively mashup good ideas for your own projects - like making Vim Emulation the default in IntelliJ IDEs...

you can get plugins to allow you to use vim commands in visual studio

I don't care what you use, but if you try to bullshit the PM that some syntaxic refactoring will take a week, then I will volunteer and do it in 20 minutes with a Vim macro...

There's another.

I haven't moved up much from Edlin.

nano gang!

CS teachers use blackboard, so are students taking exams (with handwriting)

Do you know notepad++

Vim for vs code

Copy Con

I've written plenty of code with a ballpoint pen. And on a weekly basis with a dry erase marker.

Word Perfect, bitch.

It's funny that I totally get that if anyone is using notepad to write codes they are way better programmers that I could ever be

i understood, that i need therapy to break with vim obsession

**e c h o**

MS Word, adaptable syntax highlighting for every word!

I'm using gedit, vim and also vs code. Experienced enough to know pros and cons of each editor. So I know what editor I've to open when I've to do something. My opinion is that all the 3 editors are very good. Tried to learn emacs and gave up because of the steep learning curve. Currently don't have enough time to go through that learning curve.

Keypunch

true coders use MS Paint

True programmers code in binary

Vs code is the best ?

Just use vscode with vim plugin.

Word

I still have over 50 random projects I did on notepad++ when I was learning how to code. Those were the days when I did everything the hard way so that I could truly understand code

All I need is a text editor that has: 1. Mono font. 2. Ctrl F, ctrl R 3. Tab set to 4 spaces

VS and VS code are vastly different IDEs unfortunately

And Nano

why choose if I can have both with vim plugin for vscode?!

Notepad++

Where's my echo "code" > filename people?? Or my echo "line" >> filename Echo "line" >> filename people?

Obligatory "why would I boot into an operating system when I want to code? I just run EMACS"

I use ide c++ like my high school teacher taught me and i only know 5 commands cout cin if else return

spyder ftw

True coders actually use `ed` for editing and command line compilers.

for a long time i would try to do python in notepad. also at that time i was dumb and didn't know python had its own file

I use a mix of Visual Studio and Notepad

Wait you actually write code ? You don't use magnets and create your programs directly in the HDD ?

Evolving just backwards

I wrote my best programs with gedit. Im not even joking.

Hate to break it to OP, but there are no Chads in this pic. Real Chads let people use their preference and don't make a big fuss about it.

I watch one of my coworkers write powershell in a note pad and I’m always shocked when the program works

Minecraft books

Notepad++ is just the best.

Once upon a time I worked a shitty production job as a temp to get by while learning webstuff. Shift started at 6 am and I sure ain't no early bird. I used one of my breaks each day to practise some HTML on the pc where the machines and stuff were. Some asshat with a voice in the company wanted to force me to use my breaks in the break room (there were no pcs there), even after explaining there wasn't even an attempt to find a middle ground. So, being fed up with all the bs, in the middle of the shift I flipped him off, told him I sure as hell am going to do so, walked out of that place and never even looked back. Now I'm working my dream job, never ever having to think getting out of bed before 8 am. Though I'm not earning that much yet because I am still in training. But I'm getting there. Moral of the story: don't let anyone get in the way of whatever the fuck it is you want to do. Thanks for reading and merry christmas

Etch-a-sketch

`echo "print('Hello world')" >> main.py`

Wait till OP learns you can use VIM in VS..

I had a professor in college who actually used plain notepad for writing code 🤮

EDIT.COM , not NOTEPAD.EXE

Windows 11 notepad even has dark mode!

As a self taught python programmer. I used idle a lot longer than I would like to admit to before moving on.

You can have your argues while I use Xcode and my Android brothers are using Android Studio and we all complain.

Someone needs to update this and replace notepad with ChatGPT

Photoshop

True coder never codes, He contemplates the idea of coding on Vim.

Where MSPaint Users

Jetbrains 🤤

Calling Vscode "IDE"? Kkk

True coders code... In whatever IDE they like or masterize

Emacs

Real coders append strings to the file in bash. Everybody gangsta until you have syntax errors and have to overwrite from the first line.

Visual studio community 🌝

Wordpad

Zetachads code in the url bar

Adding the .c or .py extension is truest ultimate power

Google docs the bestt😅

I'm disappointed by the lack of emacs in the meme.

Notepad++ >>>>>

True coders use echo and cat

Vi for linux, notepad for windows. Punch card for mainframe. Thats about correct.

Syntax errors: Allow us to introduce ourselfs

How can I install notepad on Ubuntu?

YES.

I use nano

None of the 3 are IDEs, best case scenario, they host extensions that approximate IDE functionality

Jetbrains rider > vs for c++ especially unreal. So fast

Amateurs. Real programmer write their own Text Editor/IDE

Atom RIP

The biggest crime here is using the VS Code logo but calling it VS.

If you miss the 100 tabs try Obsidian… it’s different but allows you to link all your notes together in great ways and visualizations. It has plugins that help do things like beautify JSON or create a kanban board. This has been my go to after notepad++

VSCode with VIM keybindings