![]() It straddles the line between a text editor and an IDE: it can manage multi-project files, automatically call out to compilers and suchlike, and parse their output to highlight errors. Geany 2 is small, fast, lightweight, and it runs natively on Linux, 64-bit Windows and on macOS (click to enlarge) You don't have to put up with apps that take a good fraction of a gigabyte for this. That's not true in the case of plain text editors, though. This vulture is guilty of using some, and even recommending them – because some of them can do things that nothing else can. Gargantuan Electron apps are distressingly prevalent on Linux and macOS as well. Sluggish, bloated editors are not just a problem on Windows. Notepad++ is a native Win32 app, making it tiny and fast: the download is less than 5MB, one twentieth the size of VSCode. VSCode is implemented as an Electron app, meaning that it's huge, embeds an entire copy of Chromium, and scoffs RAM like it's going out of fashion. Ninite does offer other programmers' editors, such as Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio Code – but they are behemoths by comparison. And if you keep the Ninite installer file around, you can re-run it later and it will update everything it installed first time around. Ninite will install – and update – a whole swath of FOSS and freeware tools for Windows, making setup of a new machine doable in just a couple of clicks. It is a staple on all of the Reg FOSS desk's Windows partitions, thanks to its inclusion in the essential Windows post-install setup tool Ninite. Notepad++ will not, to be honest, win any awards for beauty, but it might do for speed, size and functionality (click to enlarge)
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