Comment on In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”
Bezier@suppo.fi 1 month ago
“Barely maintained”
Notepad was a very simple application. Did it even need more effoet put into it? Looks more like they fixed what was not broken.
This. It needed absolutely nothing added to it. You could write text files, what more did anyone ever need from it? The app was done. It was ready.
This is a concept that is not even in the vocabulary of IT companies these days and I can understand it for complex systems that have dependencies up the wazoo but notepad was just a notepad and that was good enough.
There were a few things that it eventually got but lacked for way too long like support for UNIX line endings.
It was definitely lacking in core areas. Large files, better search, possibly spell check (and why isn’t spell check core Windows functionality?). It also could have used better handling for non-Windows text files. But overall, yes, this wasn’t a program that needed a dedicated team to manage or improve.
Do all that but just without all the AI crap.
Thank you very much.
If Windows was actually good, you could have it take a question and paste the results into Notepad without having to add AI there. If it was really good, the AI segment would be optional.
gjoel@programming.dev 1 month ago
I like dark mode and tabs. Now I actually use it a lot more. I don’t like adding a gibberish generator…
joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 month ago
They should’ve stopped at support for utf-8 encoding and unix line endings.