The community-built port supports both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs and is maintained separately from the main Windows project.
Built in Objective-C++ with native Cocoa APIs and the Scintilla engine, it aims to improve performance and reduce system load on macOS.
The free open-source editor keeps the familiar interface, syntax highlighting for more than 80 languages, search and replace, macro recording and plugin support, but is not affiliated with founder Don Ho or the official team.
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