I have used Kate and it is pretty nice.
What does Kdevelop do that I won't get with Pycharm?
* Better support for QT & KDE tooling for one.
* Faster.
* Opinion: PyCharm's static analysis seems to be better.
* Nice support for opening projects from source control.
Kdevelop is really not all that bad, and it does a good job of getting out of the way. That said, I'm using PyCharm for 99% of my work in Python. Kdevelop, I keep around for the occasion when I want to tweak a KDE app.
Re:Kate is 20 years old
by blinkingled on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:32AM
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It used to be very crashy in the past but I recently tried it with Apache httpd codebase and it was really good - fast, accurate code completion, easy configuration, same stellar customizability except it all seems to work now.
> it all seems to work now.
Just in time to port everything to Qt 6 and start the merry-go-round again!
Kidding, but also not really.
Thanks, probably not enough for me to switch, but nice to know.
Excellent C++ debugging, easy to setup with CMake projects.
I'm using them even on non kde desktops..
Sure, there are a few bugs and features that could be added. But it is a no match for other editors when you compare with the criterions: open source, free, lightweight to use.