I don't have any use for Notepad++, but reading about this makes me wish I did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad%2B%2B#Political_messag...

The possibility of software being a personal, creative, expressive endeavor (which often includes politics), something I believed in back when I was in university twenty years ago, is a feeling that's receded deeply into the past. That might be as much about me as it is about the world, but I miss it.

Sublime is good too without the political rhetoric. It boggles my mind that windows users refuse the ways of vim.

I remember a few years back there was an update where it would actually type the political message when you created a new text document. I abandoned it ever since.

The creator is also very selective about the type of politics he supports.

And they were running on such a shoestring deployment that N++ was hacked by the Chinese last year. I'd stick with VS Code.