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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] senoro@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He must be thinking of notepad. Which I mean, I would not choose to code in Notepad but I wouldn’t actively avoid it like I would wordpad.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the "I got to change 1 of code" editor.

[–] elrac@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

The "my IDE didn't recognize the file type and opened it in here by default" editor.

[–] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

WordPad was often used if a file was too big for Notepad, over 64 KB. But now there are better options.