The macOS port, built by New York-based developer Andrey Letov using AI-assisted development workflows…
Yeah now I can see why he’s unhappy with it.
I think he’s unhappy because that developer presents the macOS port as though it were an official port, even using the original developer’s biography to market it, when it isn’t.
Trademark is one of the areas of copyright law that makes sense. The dev for notepad++ could receive tickets when the app doesn’t work, fines or blocks if there is any violation of apple TOS or just confusion in the apple market if they ever wanted to move into OSX.
The funny part is, it sounds like he could have been successful, but it sounds like his prompting for the port omitted a lot of important things to consider. He may have just done “make this run on a Mac”. I think if he had mentioned it was a port, one of the major LLMs would have known to change enough about it to make it different and avoid this.
no. LLMs wouldn’t have done that for simply saying “I want a port of this fork for macos” they wouldn’t have changed the branding or anything. You would have to specifically put in the prompt how you would want a rebrand, specifically state HOW you wanted to rebrand it and where, etc.
The prompt was likely simply “make this work on macos” and that’s it.
“vibe coder steals people’s work and uses their reputation to get attention”
I thought everyone knows that you rebrand when you fork. But then again it is an LLM psycho, so who knows what’s in his head.
nothing. the prompt to claude code was “I need this to work natively on macos” and then he just hit tab and walked out of the room.
I always have Notepad++ on my Windows machines and admit to running it in Wine on my Mac. But my go to plain text editor on my Macs has always been BBEdit. I had assumed this was legit until this new info came out, I can see why the creator is pissed. The vibe coding just makes it worse.
notepad++ is one of my ‘must haves’ on any pc. even with how shitty it looks on linux, it still does everything i expect it to. irfanview is another, there simply isn’t anything native to linux that has its feature set and ease-of-use. i gave up my paint.net and paintshop pro for linux, but i need the other two to work.
I’ve head that nodepadqq is similar and quite good https://notepadqq.com/s/
Though, I should note that I’ve just tried it and not used it extensively. I simply stick to Kate or kwrite.
(Serious question not trying to be a dick)
What is so special about notepad++ that no other editors have? I have not used it extensively myself (and last time I ever even did was probably 10yr ago), so I don’t know it well enough, I actually can’t remember what made me use it over the stock notepad back when I did use windows but it must have been some feature.
It used to be leagues better than the default on windows, having plugins, hex-view for binary files, actual history instead of one undo, ability to open big files without much trouble, formatting and syntax highlight. At least, those were the reasons I used it, nowadays I still install it and set as default, but don’t use that much. And I moved to Linux anyway
What about Kate?
I like Kate. I use it on Linux and Windows, but I also use Notepad++ on Windows. lol
there simply isn’t anything native to linux that has its feature set and ease-of-use
What does Notepad++ have that Kate doesn’t?
that comment was about irfanview, not npp.
as far as kate goes… i am making the conscious effort to use it over npp. i’ve been using linux since debian was in diapers, but my main ‘work’ pc has always been windows (that fact will be changing soon as i can decide on a desktop and what spin of what will deliver it) and npp has been on it since its inception. so what npp ‘has’ over kate, for me, is 22 years of history together.
- Compare plugin worked better on N++
- It worked a little better with enormous files with long lines
- Highlighting multiple search results in a selectable color
It’s just not great in Wine. I ran across someone else’s post just now asking for any other editor that can do comparison editing like it because of that fact. It’s so useful in Windows, but graphically it’s a pain in anything else, and really needs a port. A legit one.
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