Espresso is a gorgeous Mac-only code editor that’s powerful and smooth, like the caffeinated beverage it’s named after. This ...

Notepad++ is a portable notepad that users like computer programmers will find enormously useful, because it offers something the regular Notepad doesn’t: numbered lines.

Notepad2 offers syntax highlighting, which makes coding much easier. The one downside to Notepad2 is that it doesn’t support tabs, when it comes to opening multiple files.