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Notepad++ vs VSCodium: What are the differences?
- Operating System Compatibility: Notepad++ is mainly designed for Windows, while VSCodium is compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Extensions and Marketplace: VSCodium has a rich ecosystem of extensions and a marketplace for users to enhance its functionalities, whereas Notepad++ has a limited set of plugins available for customization.
- Intellisense and Autocompletion: VSCodium provides advanced features like IntelliSense, autocompletion, and debugging capabilities out of the box, while Notepad++ lacks these advanced features.
- Integrated Git Support: VSCodium comes with integrated Git support, making version control and collaboration easier for developers, while Notepad++ requires external plugins for Git integration.
- Remote Development Capabilities: VSCodium offers remote development capabilities, allowing users to work on projects hosted on different machines or servers, a feature not available in Notepad++.
- Themes and Customization: VSCodium offers a more modern and customizable interface with a wide range of themes and customization options, compared to the more basic customization options in Notepad++.
In Summary, Notepad++ is a Windows-focused, basic text editor with limited features, while VSCodium is a cross-platform, feature-rich code editor with advanced functionalities and customization options.
Decisions about Notepad++ and VSCodium
Andrey Ginger
Managing Partner at WhiteLabelDevelopers · | 3 upvotes · 494.6K views
Since communication with Github is not necessary, the Atom is less convenient in working with text and code. Sublim's support and understanding of projects is best for us. Notepad for us is a completely outdated solution with an unacceptable interface. We use a good theme for Sublim ayu-dark
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Pros of VSCodium
Pros of Notepad++
- Syntax for all languages that i use103
- Tabbed ui59
- Great code editor56
- Fast and lightweight53
- Plugins38
- Nice GUI28
- Regex & Special Character Search & Replace26
- Fast startup16
- Application is free, and plugins are too9
- Themes9
- Free6
- Very Lightweight4
- 100% Free3
- Column selection2
- Awesome autocomplete1
- Easy edit on FTP servers (NppFTP)1
- Cos it's seck1
- Nice gui. are you kidding me?1
- Open Sourced1
Pros of VSCodium
- Simple and intuitive UI6
- Community-driven6
- Open source6
- Intellisense5
- Powerful multilanguage IDE4
- Terminal4
- Fast4
- Good Plugins4
- Crossplatform4
- Git integration4
- Privacy4
- Powerful3
- Extensions3
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Cons of Notepad++
Cons of VSCodium
Cons of Notepad++
- No default plugin manager3
- Can't install more advanced packets2
Cons of VSCodium
- Some extentions can't be isntalled direclty from IDE2
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What is Notepad++?
Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
What is VSCodium?
It is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode.
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What are some alternatives to Notepad++ and VSCodium?
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses.
Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
Atom
At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
UltraEdit
It is a powerful, fast, and secure text editor whose helpful features make every day life easier for any user type and programming language. Windows, Mac, Linux.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Vim
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.