The History of Notepad++ 👩‍💻 #tech #developer #technology #software #code #programming #windows

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notepad Plus+ was an absolute GameChanger in 2003 Don Ho started getting tired of the slow J text editor built in Java so he wrote One completely from scratch using C++ and released for Windows notepad++ was really basic syntax highlighting search themes but it was simple by Design even to today's standards it does all the core features fast and efficiently meaning that the other things that you might want to do can be installed with his plug-in features and today's age some of the apps we use take so long to open that apps like notepad++ are gems and an age full of bloatware the one issue is that it's still only for Windows after 20 years in 2015 Don Ho said that notepad plus plus relied too heavily on the win32 API that they gave up porting to Mac and Linux opening a text file or code file while making a quick change is lightning fast as it should be meanwhile VSS code is still opening up the docker extension that I still never use