5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Notepad first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Been using this for years and it's pretty much all I ever needed.”
endorse · personal · throwaway613745 · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Notepad being the only one I've noticed with odd characters it includes in the ctrl+arrow movements.”
regret · personal · stolksdorf · 2013-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started out with Notepad, and wrote everything for the website I wanted to build in a single large massive php file.”
neutral · personal · mewpmewp2 · 2026-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had to write a lot of Go code in Notepad for a while in 2017 - never again”
neutral · production · DaiPlusPlus · 2020-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using notepad for this kind of thing previously”
neutral · personal · momotomo · 2010-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?