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by guessbest 1023 days ago
GUI applications are only as responsive as the framework allows them to be. Because Notepad2 and the later Notepad3 were built with win32, they will start the fastest. Applications with a lot of plugins will only load as fast as those plugins can be checked and loaded to prevent exceptions. Personally, I like AkelPad since it still uses a proper MDI like Visual Studio 2008.