When I saw this headline my mind automatically interpreted Nextpad++ as Notepad++, I had to stop and fully parse through the headline before realizing there was actually an 'e' in there instead of an 'o'. They really chose the least indistinguishable new name that they possibly could have. In reality there's only a couple pixels of difference between the two names.

this coming to Mac is a little too little and a little too late. Notepad++ void has been successfully filled with many lightweight native editors, some are FOSS, which are quite mature. And with this drama (read: shady, suspicious etc) one would be better served to stay away from it, at least for a while.

BBEdit, Sublime, TextMate, TextEdit (yes, it's actually useful in plain-text mode :P), CodeEdit etc.

My fav is SubEthaEdit and then there's CotEditor and these are just too good.

https://github.com/subethaedit/SubEthaEdit

https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor

https://github.com/CodeEditApp/CodeEdit

(Note: And nope, Xcode isn't that. It's a monstrosity devs have to endure if they want to write and publish for Apple)

Someone aid this last time but it should have ben named textpad++

Can anyone recommend me a notepad++ like app for Linux?

IMHO the '++' still looks so... dishonest? Maybe that's not the right word. I mean, it would be fitting if it were a modern version of something called "Nextpad" (which it isn't).