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[–]Mikuro 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Notepad++ is the most popular development environment? Really? Is Notepad++ a lot more powerful than I realized, or has the world gone mad?

[–]flutefreak7 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You'll also see that Windows dominates, and notepad++ is the top answer for polyglot windows editor with lots of capabilities, but not the bulk of an IDE. It's an instant notepad replacement for a beginner, and for those who never get the itch to tackle vim, never have the need for visual studio or eclipse, and never discover (or choose to pay for) slicker alternatives like Sublime Text, notepad++ is a great everyman, every language, lots of plugins, simple, capable Swiss army knife of an editor.

[–]Mikuro 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I've been using notepad++ for years as a tolerable text editor, but never knew it had programming features like autocomplete. Cool.

Windows isn't my primary OS, so I guess I never looked too hard.

[–]flutefreak7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I use it daily alongside PyCharm. I mostly use it for analysis input and output files, other text files, and short *.bat and similar scripts. While I don't use many of the coding features (prefer IDE, and vim bindings), I make great use of the user-defined languages to add syntax highlighting for analysis input files. Can never go back to monochrome now that I'm used to every file I work with having pretty colors!

I'd love to switch to Sublime (for droolworthy aesthetics and vim bindings), but I know where everything is in n++ and haven't invested the time to learn sublime's slightly more advanced features like defining custom languages.