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Notepad++ v8.4.9 Release

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I've used this editor for years and am always amazed at how such high-quality tools can be developed by people with a passion to create something useful. Don, thanks so much for this body of work.

I’m Chinese. And I can testify that a lot of my colleagues in China do not think the genocide is happening while IT IS SOOO REAL!!! They are extremely ignorant and look down on Uyghur people, knowing that if you are Uyghur you can’t even have a passport!!! Yet, they still stand with the gov. They justify their reason as tech should leave politics alone and having political views is not professional while at the same time being sexism publicly in workplace. I for one cannot understand my Chinese mates as well.

That's what happen after multiple decades of government brainwashing in a closed environment, the Chinese society desperately need some therapy on a nationwide level.

+1. All I can feel right now is extreme disappointment.

Good lord, what's wrong with people? Why vandalise the project on Github? Everything about the situation, right from folks not understanding an obvious joke to vandalising the issues page is anger inducing.

Not to mention getting angry that the author called out genocide

What exactly angered Chinese users so much? I'm missing some important context here

I'm missing most of the context too, but from the twitter thread linked to by the dev, it seems that a lot of Chinese posters immediately started firing back as though he was attacking China specifically.

I know the Notepad++ dev has made some spicy comments but I don't recall if there were any directed towards the Chinese government.

It was related to Hong Kong and the genocide, which some in China agree with

I think it's similar to how certain Americans get squirrelly when people talk about racial brutality, like I imagine we'd get a lot of weird people sending cringe messages if they named a release "Justice for Trayvon Martin"

The creator titled one of the previous releases "Free Uyghur", IIRC, which made many Chinese users upset.

If you get upset by people who state that genocide is bad, you're rooting for the bad guys.

And a lot of Chinese do really think like that. They think the advancement of economic is more important than the freedom of ethic group (and their own freedom).

I'm sure even the most militant of CCP members would agree that genocide is not a key factor in China's economic growth.

I fondly remember one of my very first editors I used to start coding as a kid was Notepad++, almost a decade ago.

It was simple, minimal so that it didn't take much of the precious internet bandwidth downloading and space in my parents computers, it still kept a balance on being powerful enough so that you could install a wide range of plugins provided, heck there was even a plugin that could play tetris.

You can really tell the "only read the title" comments on this one

Yes? do you have a problem?

Do you think I would care to read about the release when I dropped Notepad++ almost a decade ago?

I only came here to recall my fond memories from reading title because it has been a long time since I last heard about Notepad++, and move on.

Welcome to HN, where there are people who only comment by the title and don't bother the content further, if it doesn't interests them.

Amazing how long this project has been going. N++ was one of the very first editors I used on Windows 98 back in the day. I used it to edit HTML and Perl, which got uploaded using WinFTP.. when I think about it, it's amazing everyone didn't get hacked because of how much we used FTP without encryption.

Thinking back, it was probably XP that I used it with.

I think I started with it on XP, but brought it forward to at least 7, which is when I mostly stopped voluntarily interacting with Windows. :D

what happened if they updated their design to the 2020s?

it looks like win95 in a cute way, but it undersells it so hard :)

I'd really rather not have like, 4 giant balloon like buttons, instead of the simple yet powerful menu&toolbar setup that N++ has used for what, multiple decades at this point? And it's great: the menus contain a LOT of functionality, and the toolbar also contains quite a bit of the most-used stuff.

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