Notepad++ Mac Port Renamed Nextpad++ After Trademark Row

Following past month's sum of an unofficial Mac larboard of Notepad++ that the archetypal developer called retired for trademark violation, the quality has present been resolved with a rebrand.


The macOS larboard was antecedently released by Andrey Letov nether the Notepad++ sanction without authorization. Don Ho created the archetypal Windows codification exertion successful 2003, and had publicly objected to the unofficial app's usage of his trademark and the inclusion of his sanction and biography connected its writer page. After settling the dispute, the app has subsequently been renamed Nextpad++.

The site for Nextpad++ has been thoroughly updated and intelligibly states that the app is an "open-source and autarkic assemblage larboard of Notepad++ to macOS." Elsewhere, Letov's About page describes the task arsenic a Mac larboard of the Notepad++ GPL codebase, built connected Objective-C++, Scintilla, and Cocoa, and shipped arsenic a cosmopolitan binary for Apple silicon and Intel Macs. The app besides has a caller icon.

Names aside, it seems Daring Fireball's John Gruber is less than charmed by the result, describing the app arsenic feeling "unholy" and suggesting the accelerated larboard could lone person been built with AI vibe-coding tools. The tract states improvement began connected March 10.

Have you tried retired Nextpad++ for Mac? Let america cognize what you deliberation successful the comments.
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