You may believe that Notepad++ Mac is not available as it's also impossible to download Notepad for Mac, but that is not the actual reason .

Additionally, it is in charge of this immediately recognizable Windows look and feel that lots of long-term users of this operating system find so attractive. At least not with a significant rewriting of the program.

In case Notepad++ have been a commercial job, there is a possibility it might make a way to develop and keep another version for macOS (and Linux), but it is completely free and open source, so the motivation is constrained. Porting Notepad++ into a different operating system would also violate the compatibility with the majority of plugins, basically fragmenting the Notepad++ network.

We have already explained why the former is not likely to occur anytime soon, however, the latter is currently possible with virtual machines and emulators.

What's Wine then? A free and open source compatibility layer whose objective is to emulate the Windows runtime environment by copying Windows system calls in to POSIX-compliant program calls. Additionally, it recreates the directory structure of Windows programs and gives different implementations of Windows program libraries, services, and other elements.

The most important benefit of conducting Notepad++ (or some other program ) utilizing Wine is it runs side-by-side using native macOS software. However, because of how Wine functions, minor bugs should be expected. A bug and there can be okay if you use Notepad++ simply to sometimes edit a text document, but they could quickly create Notepad++