Notepad++ 64 bit

What use case were you thinking of that would make the 64-bit package useful for you?

As a general rule, we only release 32-bit versions of most apps, since they work everywhere and there's no noticeable difference to the end user for about 99% of apps in performance. That plus the fact that about 3/4 of the apps we've released are only available in 32-bit packages. The exceptions are apps where there is a noticeable increase in performance without a huge size increase (7-Zip gets about 9% better performance in 64-bit mode for large archives and only adds a few MB), where it's useful for large data usage (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc get a boost when you have a ton of tabs open and stuff going on), or when it's required (PeerBlock uses different drivers for 32-bit vs 64-bit). All those apps ship with both 32-bit and 64-bit included.

We make decisions on an app by app basis, hence the question about Notepad++. It would increase the install size to about 36MB from 20MB. And it may cause some issues with plugins. Do you happen to know if most 32-bit plugins are available for the 64-bit version? It looks like it might be pretty close (32-bit and 64-bit. I can think of one advantage of the 64-bit version which would be opening larger files. At least I assume it will. For Notepad2 Portable we include the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, but that's mainly because it's under 1MB and super easy (no plugins or complex spaghetti settings like Notepad++).

Happy to hear your thoughts as well as others as this may be a good candidate for a dual mode app, especially since I fixed the portability issues and started using Notepad++'s cloud settings to help portablize.

Notepad++ Portable 8.1 has been updated to a dual mode portable app with both 32-bit and 64-bit. Themes are maintained between the two packages but plugins, necessarily, are not. Through creative file movement, it's only 8MB larger when installed than before.