I mainly use Kdevelop, but it does use the same backend as Kate! Both are incredible, and allow one to easily hook up scripts and tools to the GUI or keybindin

I mainly use Kdevelop, but it does use the same backend as Kate! Both are incredible, and allow one to easily hook up scripts and tools to the GUI or keybindings. It's great to be able to use whatever you have in your machine instead of downloading plugins to do the same thing and relying on the author's opinionated defaults. Really sane development programs, I was always thrown off by how other hackable editors like Emacs and Vim. They're great! But all the effort needed to use them means that I'm not making things happen. The features page might be underselling Kate, but it's really powerful.