Notepad++ original creator calls out recently released macOS fork as an unauthorized fake

this whole thing is kinda funny! Everybody seems so heated over someone "however they did it doesnt matter" cloned a repository that is Open Source. And brought a version of it to macOS! Whats so wrong with that? The communitys online are full of bunch of haters period. Instead of being encouraging they discourage. People have fragile egos and feel under attack at just about anything nowadays. Its fu..ed up that people who may take a interst in learning programming wont ever get off the ground because of all the discouragement, and unforeseen politics etc. Thats sad to see that, and that is the state of alot of online communitys. And why is everyone so down on the AI. It most certainly can be used to ones advantage to benefit other people and to better ones self in knowledge. Developers have been using AI before Chatbots ever thought about hitting the scene. And also Notepad++ is a decent Editor, i like it, but its not "pulsar", "zed", "nova", "vscode", i mean it uses QsciScintilla for highlighting which by the way is not supported for semantic tokens. And that matters to quite a few, at the very least it needs to be updated in some areas. i Have a syntaxHighlighter I made myself just to use on my C++ Projects and its a simple Regex based highlighter but it has support for semantic tokens, any and all you would want to add to it, very easy to add more tokens. I wrote it fr my own projects so ive only got three languages its supporting at the momemnt "C++", "C", "ACPI/DSL", buts its really pretty simple to add more to it. Anyway, being regex based, it is as fast as qsciscintilla and has better highlighting. Its qritten in C++ and would be a great addition for notepad++. However I mean whats the point anyway, people would just insult you for doing something that adds a nice feature to a application that would benefit from it. Instead of compliment, you would be met with insults and discouragement! Thats the kind of people that are in these communitys and they are infested with them. No one profits from being a hater of others. Now the thing between Don Ho and this PetrovDude what ever his name is, i dont have any idea about that. If hes disrespected Don Ho openly or however, well thats a Problem. But thats between them. I dont know anything about it. Im sure it will work itself out.

Ohhh, I Hope Notepad++ Doesn't 'goes closed-source like Paint.NET'

Thanks for the clarification post. It will be interesting how long this project survives - At least with the upstream contributors he had a very rough start to put it mildly. But now with the rebranding it is all fine I guess, might be a useful addition to the ecosystem (for people who are very used to NPP but are on Mac).

This sucker used AI to make a Mac port and gave himself fake endorsement all the while Notepad Next (a perfectly legitimate and not controversial fork of Notepad ++ btw) supports Mac! I've got no words. Yes, these are three projects with the same codebase that soon-to-be NextPad++ has just ripped off both their names, Notepad++ and NotpadNext. This surely won't cause any confusion or drama. foreshadowing intensifies

I saw the project on the day it was added to AlternativeTo, and it always said it was a port. However, it is a port that is completely assisted by AI, more precisely the AI agent Claude Code. You only need to check the commits on GitHub: https://github.com/nextpad-plus-plus/nextpad-plus-plus-macos/commits/main/?after=6a1b857c671a00078544c64d611698f8d74e533e+174.

I'm pretty sure the author cloned the repository and wrote the port for macOS in less than one month, which is certainly easier than doing it from scratch after more than 20 years of working with Windows. It's interesting that the main difference in terms of the percentage of languages is that the port uses more Objective-C than the original Notepad++; the rest is pretty similar.