I have such nice memories with Kate and our computer science courses back in 1998-2001 as we studied fun things like that new Java language that was taking the

I have such nice memories with Kate and our computer science courses back in 1998-2001 as we studied fun things like that new Java language that was taking the world by storm. There were rumors that Microsoft was working on a Java competitor codenamed Cool¹ but for now, Sun Microsystems was suddenly hot again in a resurgence, even in circles they had rarely been seen before. So, in 2001, Kate was announced and KDE 2 was enrichened with that nice and powerful IDE! And yet I recall it feeling quite performant and not that heavy for how much it could do. I still think it's a neat balance between performance and utility. ¹ And indeed, in 1999, Anders Hejlsberg formed a team to create such a language ("C-like Object Oriented Language") but due to copyright reasons, it was later renamed to C#.