You edit code in one window and run and view it in another.<BR><BR>While you could code in notepad.exe, you miss out on auto-complete, intellisense, and syntax coloring among other things.

For another notepad replacement that has recieved accolades from code-writing readers here, check out Notepad++. Programmer's Notepad is freeware, Windows only.

On Windows 11, Notepad includes a slew of features you probably don't know, including spell check and autocorrect, font customization, redesigned find and replace, startup behavior, dark mode, etc ...