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by NooneAtAll34 hours ago |
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upvoteby datenyan3 hours ago|
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Glad (/s) to see the MBA-ification of tech companies continues uninterrupted as we enter the second half of the decade.
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upvoteby UqWBcuFx6NV4r1 hours ago|
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I don’t know what sort of insane nerd echo chamber you have to be in to think that MBA-ification means “adding rich text editing features to a text editor”.

You’ve heard legitimate complaints about “MBAs” but very clearly lack the knowledge to identify those problems on your own.

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upvoteby datenyan1 hours ago|
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> "adding rich text editing features to a text editor”

Yeah, we already had that. In the form of Wordpad. Which was EOL'd. And now we have Notepad with AI features.

Notepad was, and always should have been, a simple & lightweight text box for storing and editing text only files. If you wanted to edit something more complicated, you could use the other tool that was built into Windows specifically for that.

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upvoteby cyanydeez3 hours ago|
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I assume there's like a single manager who's job it was was to maintain notepad and force use of AI, so obviously, vibe code needless features because if it's not broke, how can you fix it with AI.
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upvoteby brokencode2 hours ago|
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Yeah IDK. Wordpad is built around rich text, with all the weirdness and complexity that comes with it. I know for a fact that .rtf is absurdly complicated to work with, and I assume that .docx is similar.

I’m willing to bet that adding markdown to Notepad was a lot simpler than trying to make it work in Wordpad, especially since you’d probably still have to support rich text.

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upvoteby alansaber1 hours ago|
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Hence why I use .txt and not .rtf (After having multiple RTF files become corrupted)
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upvoteby westurner1 hours ago|
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Syntax highlighting is definitely less complex than updating and rendering RTF and HTML.

There is configurable syntax highlighting in vscode.

Should an app like Notepad ever embed a WebView? (with e.g. tauri-apps/wry instead of CEF now FWIU)? Not even for a Markdown Preview feature IMHO.

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