3 ms·

Did not know Kate was available outside KDE. Looks interesting, maybe it can replace vscode for some light editing?

• archi42 3y ago
  Yes and beyond: You can also use it for full software development. After all that's what it's intended to do. It's no accident 6 out of 8 screenshots show source code. I know/knew some pretty skilled devs using it for their defacto-IDE ;-)
  • kramerger 3y ago
    Does it work as a somewhat competent IDE without needing a bunch of plugins? This is honestly my main complaint about vscode. Can't for example work with Go projects without installing tons of external tools, some of which written by random devs outside Microsoft and Google.
    • ahartmetz 3y ago
      There are a bunch of plugins and you likely will use some for development work, but they are ~all first-party. So no need to worry about them not keeping up with plugin interface changes, being mutually incompatible and such.
    • archi42 3y ago
      First hit using Google: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/cokcuw/the_kate_editor_now_with_support_for_go_via_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/cokcuw/the_kate_edi... LSP support for Go was introduced 4y ago. There were some discussions regarding go-langserver vs gopls, but that could be dated (Christoph & contributors are quite active). Personally, I'm an e-vi-l person and never worked on Go projects, so I can't tell you from experience. Also I don't know your requirements. Maybe just give it a shot? After all, its FOSS, so the only investment is your time ;)