I’ve been using Geany for very long time as my go to casual editor for any type of text. I can install on all my platforms, all my OS, it’s fast and doesn’t gag on huge log files. Same experience in all platforms which is why it’s one of first installed tools. I’m not a prof dev but at home on macOS, pi, beagle, arduino, Win10 the sheer time saving of having something work same across platforms for projects I get to only when work, family, time allows makes it a winner.

When in full on coding mode I prefer vi, rest of the time use Geany. Have tried regularly most other IDEs and text editors and none as fast, reliable, easy to install and use as Geany.

It’s perfect for me. YMMV.