Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone
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Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone
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#3Ah, but does it have a copilot integration? I've heard users don't want tools without copilot integrations.
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#4Did you know that HE CREATED TASK MANAGER??
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#5Sure, but it's basically a very thin wrapper on the built-in RichEdit control, with some added menus and niceties.
Don't get me wrong, it's hundreds of times better than whatever UWP abomination they call Notepad in Windows 11 nowadays (with logins and AI features), but it's not an actual text viewer / editor from scratch.
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#6This person's whole marketing seems to be based on "I built Task Manager", so much that it has become a meme, see e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1sl5nv4/task_... (also apparently there's some dark history involved)
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#7When I was younger, I decided I wanted to learn how to write games. I decided I needed to start simple, though, and I thought NOTEPAD.EXE was about the simplest thing out there. (This was in Windows 3.1.) So to learn how NOTEPAD.EXE worked, I opened NOTEPAD.EXE in NOTEPAD.EXE, and spent several hours trying to decipher the symbols' meanings.
My first attempt at coding was … unsuccessful.
Re: Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone
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#9Sure, but it's basically a very thin wrapper on the built-in RichEdit control, with some added menus and niceties. Don't get me wrong, it's hundreds of times better than whatever UWP abomination they call Notepad in Windows 11 nowadays (with logins and AI features), but it's not an actual text viewer / editor from scratch.
> thin wrapper on the built-in RichEdit control
> UWP abomination they call Notepad
Kind of weird for both of those things to be true. I thought the latter was mostly the former. But I’ve been away from Windows for a loooooong time it seems.
Re: Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone
#10This is a fork of another tiny text editor written by someone else. So I wouldn't say they 'built' it
Honestly this headline reeks of social media clickbait