After years of using two editors, I finally found one that could handle both jobs.

You can’t argue with a good text editor. After more than 20 years on the Microsoft Windows platform, the nifty Notepad++ coding editor is now available as a native macOS app, following an unofficial ...

Notepad++ version 8.5.7 has been released with fixes for multiple buffer overflow zero-days, with one marked as potentially leading to code execution by tricking users into opening specially crafted ...

Microsoft's editors remain prominent in the 2026 developer survey, while GitHub Copilot trails Claude Code and ASP.NET Core ranks fourth among web technologies.

The hate for AI is strong in these comments, so much so that the commenters can’t be bothered to read. Notepad++ is open source and the AI was used to port that source to macOS with some GUI changes.

Using Notepadd++ as a source code editor makes writing, editing and comparing code simple. The software supports several languages, and works in both the Microsoft Windows and the Mac iOS environments ...

Don Ho, the developer of Notepad++, says 'malicious actors' had targeted the update process for 'certain targeted users' beginning in June 2025 A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long ...