While i'm more of a linux user - not a mac user - for personal computing, i used to use notepad++ for years and years on windows machines that were issued to me at my day jobs. However, for the last few months i've been using Geany [https://www.geany.org/], based on many positive comments i had read elswhere that it comes closest to notepad++. So, I'm running Geany on my work machine (windows), and any/all of my personal linux machines. While Geany is amazing, it is not as good as notepad++ (in only a few small ways); though it really does comes the closest that i've seen compared to other text editors. Plus, it runs natively across windows, linux, and mac! I have no wish to persuade you to switch if you've already found a notepad++ alternative. But, if it helps you, i've grown to really love geany. And, as much as i still love notepad++, i yanked out notepad++ from my work windows machine and only run geany. I do this because i now have a consistent, unified experience (for my text editor) regardless of the OS, which is important to me. So, again, not trying to persuade, but if you haven't, give Geany a look-see. Good luck!
EDIT: I failed to add that...i've heard folks suggest running some sort of emulation layer or maybe Wine on linux in order to run notepad++...but for me, needing to run some extra layer for a text editor just didn't sit right with me. YMMV
(on a second thought I do miss n-pp)
If I could run a swiftUI style np++ with the buttons in exactly the same places & exact feature parity it'd be a dream.
It will just make Linux and open source more popular again and Apple will slowly start loosing the developers and power users, again. Others will eventually follow.
Combined with already risky move to ARM, they have to be crazy to go that route.
I think digital signatures are purely a security measure, and the dev account requirements are a way to establish some kind of chain of trust to the developer, to prevent bad actors from signing up on the spot and pushing out tons of malware unimpeded.
My guess is that Apple will make it step by step more difficult to install non-store apps so that people get used to it and only then cut it off.
It would be nice for Apple to not do this, but if they can keep their ARM chips highly competitive it would be insanely lucrative to do so. Corporations are for-profit entities first and foremost.
If apple wanted to shut down alternative app stores macports and homebrew would already be dead.
It wouldn't be lucrative, because all the pro users (basically the mac userbase) would just not buy one. What's the point in getting one over an iPad?
Better keyboard, larger screen, more connectors. And despite a lot of devs using macs, most of the userbase aren't devs, but are instead designers, artists, or just average people like college students etc. Most of those don't need third party stores, or execute any type of software outside of an apple approved list. Give them their specialist DAW, Adobe suite, etc. and they are content.
What features do you find really help your workflow and how do you find it compares to Sublime Text in that regard?
EDIT: Had no idea Crossover was so cheap. Purchased!
(I work there.)
Previously I had a windows computer for work (though I am a mac user generally) and this is the only thing I miss since I managed to get a mac for work.
I know there are plenty of text editors available but Notepad++ just ticks all the right boxes for a simple text editor.
Edit: CrossOver for mac (fancy version of wine) is way cheap than I thought (30 quid), so I've bought that. Hello Notepad++ :)