I don’t understand. “Boycott Beijing 2022”? The event is already underway and no one is boycotting it. This release was made one day before the event started.
It’s lip service for liberal brownie points. Nothing else.
Never a NP++ fan. Nor ever will be.
To me, an editor is an editor. Don’t be political. Don’t bullshit. Focus on editing my stuff and help those poor children in Uganda.
help those poor children in Uganda
I see, you’re a Vim user, too?
Time to fork it and make a new “without the communist party, there would be no new China” edition
If you kept merging upstream code that would be pretty hypocritical.
It’s really cringe for software editors to take such stances on the pretext that they make free software. Thus they handle issues they know nothing about but, because Notepad++ was made by a Chinese person living in France, wouldn’t be surprised if he was on the CIA payroll like Ai Weiwei with such takes. In 2019 they named a release after the HK riots.
It’s still good software, I mean, I barely use it but it loads super fast and it handles file extensions that most programs can’t handle. I don’t use it for whatever little programming I do because it is lacking in this aspect (number 1: can’t compile lol).
And the worst thing is that it’s the only decent alternative on Windows for a text editor with actual syntax highlighting.
I’m not about to get my coworkers to use Notepad to edit a YAML file for some reporting software, that would be an absolute mess.
Windows is for libs
Pretty sure the dev is from hong Kong so he has a more relevant opinion on the matter than you do.
About half of the US population are eating up what the Republicans are feeding them. Just because you’re from there doesn’t mean you’re more knowledgeable of the real political situation.
Also, maybe you should look at the actual data on the proportion of pro-PRC and anti-PRC Hong Kong citizens, I think you’ll be surprised.
I didn’t say he knew more, I just said his opinion is likely to be more relevant to the situation than yours (assuming you do not live in Hong Kong).
I’m sorry, is the Olympics taking place in Hong Kong?
Well most chinese statist arguments say hong kong is part of china so technically they are in the same country, no?
So do most Purto Ricans, Guam citizens, Samoans, etc, and know about the daily lives and politics of people in Washington DC? What about Texas? Georgia? Alaska? Hawaii? Would they know enough to definitively assess how people there are being treated by the government? Or do they mostly get their knowledge from what the media wants them to think (which, Hong Kong media, both State and private, is almost completely separate from Mainland Chinese media, so it’s not even comparable to the media situation in the US).
I don’t claim to speak for those people, nor do i speak for the dev or anyone else from chinese colonies. I’m just pointing out why the dev may have strong opinions on the subject, and why smearing his project is really doing no good. What do you expect to get out of posting this here? Just to have other people agree with you? If that’s the case then I think you should look up the definition of an echo chamber.
I don’t like this because it’s bringing politics into FOSS without a real reason. It’s like talking about what you’re gonna have for lunch and a stranger saying “That’s not X diet.” It adds nothing and creates divide.
god foirbid anyone disagrees with concentration camps…
thank you for the resource dump!
I don’t take state departments at their word, but I genuinely appreciate a giant pile of info to sift through to build a more complete model of what might actually be happening.
Most of those links aren’t from State departments. They’re mostly from independent analysis of the situation.
Why?
I don’t want my text editors regurgitating American propaganda?
Why american prooaganda? Notepad is against china because of hong kong iirc
Still no good. The Hong Kong protests were headed by petit‐bourgeois neocolonialists and had the blessings of the U.S. ruling class. A few confused leftists in the big tent movement doesn’t fix that.
