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so recently i learned that notepad++ is actually open source?

what’s stopping somebody from porting it to linux? why do i need wine to run it in linux?

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@foxxo i mean, yeah, there’s better editors.
but notepad++ also has its fans and i still think its weird that nobody has at least tried.

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@IoI_xD i wasnt even aware it was open source, i always just thought it was closed source for some reason

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@IoI_xD its a windows program using windows only graphics libraries
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apparently the maintainers simply don’t want to do it, which is what i expected.
my original question was more along the lines of “why hasn’t somebody else forked it and done it anyways” and it seems people have.

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@IoI_xD doesn’t it abuse the fuck out of the win32 API?

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@IoI_xD @wamwoowam pretty sure it does

Wikipedia says the guy could port it to wxWidgets for Mac and Linux compatibility but didn't want to, implying he wrote it in raw win32

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