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Notepad is heavily used as an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) by a lot of people. It's not exactly a good development environment but it is nonetheless. I would actually argue Notepad is used primarily by programmers, and that casual Windows Notepad users are in the extreme minority. The whole reason it's so heavily used is because unlike WordPad or Word, it doesn't include formatting data, which can fuck up computer code.
Notepad++ for example is literally built to be more like an actual IDE and supports color-schemes and indentations for numerous computer programming languages.
Microsoft isn't entirely stupid (just mostly), and in knowing this, they're pushing to put their programming Copilot where they think it needs to be: Inside IDEs, which to them includes Notepad.
Notepad is definitionally not an IDE. It is not an integrated environment -- and anyone who is intentionally using it over alternatives is almost certainly doing so precisely because they do not want their text editor to be an integrated environment.
I'm sure there's some case where Notepad is PART of an integrated environment, but it would have to be with support of other tools -- likely a terminal of some sort.
The reason other text editors like -- like Notepad++ or Neovim -- can be full IDEs is because they have plugins to generate that integrated experience.
Tomato Tomahto.
There's a reason they're adding Copilot in it, and it's not because people don't use it for programming, even if it's not technically an IDE.
I think perhaps you don't know what an IDE is.
Notepad isn't "technically" not an IDE. It does not have any of the features that make an IDE an IDE. People using something for programming does not make that thing an IDE.
An IDE is an integrated environment for development. Notepad is not integrated with any environment. That's what makes it good.
Saying notepad is an IDE is like saying a wheel is a car. While yes, a car uses a bunch of wheels and you can get movement by using a wheel, a wheel is not a car.
Yes, IDE's involve text editing. And yes, you can code in any text editor that outputs a correct file format. But that doesn't make every text editor an IDE.
It's not tomato:tomAhto. It's more like tomato:pizza.