Never a NP++ fan. Nor ever will be.
To me, an editor is an editor. Don’t be political. Don’t bullshit. Focus on editing my stuff and help those poor children in Uganda.
help those poor children in Uganda
I see, you’re a Vim user, too?
I don’t understand. “Boycott Beijing 2022”? The event is already underway and no one is boycotting it. This release was made one day before the event started.
It’s lip service for liberal brownie points. Nothing else.
Time to fork it and make a new “without the communist party, there would be no new China” edition
It’s really cringe for software editors to take such stances on the pretext that they make free software. Thus they handle issues they know nothing about but, because Notepad++ was made by a Chinese person living in France, wouldn’t be surprised if he was on the CIA payroll like Ai Weiwei with such takes. In 2019 they named a release after the HK riots.
It’s still good software, I mean, I barely use it but it loads super fast and it handles file extensions that most programs can’t handle. I don’t use it for whatever little programming I do because it is lacking in this aspect (number 1: can’t compile lol).
And the worst thing is that it’s the only decent alternative on Windows for a text editor with actual syntax highlighting.
I’m not about to get my coworkers to use Notepad to edit a YAML file for some reporting software, that would be an absolute mess.
I don’t like this because it’s bringing politics into FOSS without a real reason. It’s like talking about what you’re gonna have for lunch and a stranger saying “That’s not X diet.” It adds nothing and creates divide.
Why?
I don’t want my text editors regurgitating American propaganda?
Why american prooaganda? Notepad is against china because of hong kong iirc
Still no good. The Hong Kong protests were headed by petit‐bourgeois neocolonialists and had the blessings of the U.S. ruling class. A few confused leftists in the big tent movement doesn’t fix that.
