[maremmano]

I’m on version 8.8.8, which says a lot.

This time I unfortunately have to move on from Notepad++. Vibes have been negative for a while but out of inertia (and because there weren't obvious alternatives) I never pulled the trigger. Now it's time. The trust is gone.

Thanks NP++ for being free and useful for so many years.

Can anyone suggest a solid alternative on Windows? I'm fine with Linux and macOS but I have to keep a Windows machine around for some legacy, win only, software.

Maybe Sublime Text could be an option? At this point I'd rather pay for something lightweight, fast, and probably better.

I don't like tooling that increases my exposure to bad state actors (whatever state they're from).

[nhinck3]

> I don't like tooling that increases my exposure to bad state actors

> Can anyone suggest a solid alternative on Windows

What a weird reason to switch. I don't know why you'd believe any other piece of software is somehow more secure against state actors.

[rdiddly]

Are we supposed to ignore announcements of documented compromises then? Or are you saying compromised software is the safest of all?

[nzd]

Sublime Text. It's art.

[hansifer]

It was great 10 years ago before VS Code, but Sublime has been abandonware for years now.

[maremmano]

I got both Sublime and VSCode. Sublime is a work of love. You can probably do more things with vscode, but I'm not sure you can do many of these things better or faster than sublime. I don't think so.

[maremmano]

Thanks. I'm on it right now. Testing.