This was definitely vibe coded, even the landing page.
Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port
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#12There is a crippling lack of note on the fact this is unofficial
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#13I’ve been using Notepad Next on Mac: https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext
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#14Why? I get it’s popular on Windows. But it’s so incredibly Windows-y, not Mac like at all. And we already have BBEdit and Nova. Perhaps the site answers past “you like it here it is”, but at the moment we appear to have slashdotted them.
First I've heard of Nova. I have used Transmit--also made by Panic--and was impressed with the UX there. I'll have to give Nova a spin.
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#15the ui is fugly
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#16the ui is fugly
Those icons… I just, I can’t
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#17This was definitely vibe coded, even the landing page.
Oh for sure. Just look at the "Author" page. It says he started in March 2026 on this. Which means last month he pointed Claude to the Notepad++ repo and said "make a native port of this to macOS".
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#18I know that the original Notepad++ is under GPLv2 so creating an open-source port is perfectly acceptable, but the Notepad++ name itself is trademarked by Don Ho, so calling itself "Notepad++" (for Mac) along with using an almost identical icon feels like it's crossing some boundaries.
Re: Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port
#19I know that the original Notepad++ is under GPLv2 so creating an open-source port is perfectly acceptable, but the Notepad++ name itself is trademarked by Don Ho, so calling itself "Notepad++" (for Mac) along with using an almost identical icon feels like it's crossing some boundaries.
>Notepad++ name itself is trademarked by Don Ho
Is it? I can't find a trademark registration on the USPTO site.
Re: Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port
#20Why? I get it’s popular on Windows. But it’s so incredibly Windows-y, not Mac like at all. And we already have BBEdit and Nova. Perhaps the site answers past “you like it here it is”, but at the moment we appear to have slashdotted them.
Don't forget TextMate, CotEditor, Chocolat. There are so many mac-native text editors that it's a crowded space for a new entrant sporting a distinctively un-mac-like UX.